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As one character mildly puts it, “A bomb is a dreadful muddler of affairs.”

Drop the other caperberry at the bottom of a cocktail shaker and crush it with a muddler, so that it’s torn open and the inner seeds are well exposed.

One school report reads: “A persistent muddler. Vocabulary negligible, sentences malconstructed.”

Whether you’re a newbie just mastering a muddler, or already fermenting your own tepache for pina coladas, this book will shake up your cocktail game.

The basic tools to start — which include a muddler, shaker, jigger, mixing glass and bar spoon — are a great foundation, he wrote in an email.