The bartender's handbook and recipe guide is not just a drink book. It does contain thousands of recipes, but it's also a full bartending course manual with wine knowledge, liquor knowledge, and bartending tips (to increase your tips!). In addition to the recipes the book tells you why drinks are made a certain way, so you can figure out new drinks on your own. The bartender handbook has sold thousands of copies in bartending schools across the US.

The book also contains the bartender toolkit on CD ROM, this toolkit runs on either your PC or mobile device, it even runs on your windows mobile phone.

There are also special sections on:

• Drinks, how to remember drink recipes, and why they are mixed as they are 
• Color pictures of Garnishes 
• Complete Garnish Guide 
• Complete Wine Guide 
• Wines, how to suggest wines and why 
• Bartending Terms, how to decipher drink recipes 
• Flavors, how and why they relate 
• There are 10's of thousands of drink names, and most names have more than one drink recipe. This book teaches the bartender how to remember drink recipes and create drinks to keep the customer happy and their tip jar full.