{"id":8018,"date":"2022-12-25T08:43:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T14:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=8018"},"modified":"2022-12-25T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T14:43:07","slug":"the-unofficial-hogwarts-cocktail-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=8018","title":{"rendered":"The Unofficial Hogwarts Cocktail Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Unofficial-Hogwarts-Cocktail-Book-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Unofficial Hogwarts Cocktail Book\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Unofficial-Hogwarts-Cocktail-Book-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Unofficial-Hogwarts-Cocktail-Book.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>As evident from my past reviews, I love themed cocktail recipe books, so I happily accepted an offer to check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ulyssespress.com\/books\/the-unofficial-hogwarts-cocktail-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Unofficial Hogwarts Cocktail Book: Spellbinding Spritzes, Fantastical Old-Fashioneds, Magical Margaritas and More Enchanting Recipes<\/a> ($19.95, Ulysses Press). <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Author Bertha Barmann (great last name) offers 50 alcoholic and non-alcoholic drink recipes inspired by the world of Harry Potter. I appreciated that you don&#8217;t have to go buy a ton of rare or hardly used ingredients that other recipe books make you use. In fact, I had almost every ingredient needed, except for a few items like the creme de violette that&#8217;s used in Unicorn Blood.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Potter fans will appreciate the categories of drinks, such as Magical Alley and House of Badgers. In the latter, I found the Friar&#8217;s Fizz (citrus vodka, lemon juice, simple syrup and club soda) quite refreshing. I also liked Sprout&#8217;s Sidecar (cognac, orange liqueur, lemon juice, yellow luster dust), but then again, I&#8217;ve always enjoyed Sidecars.<\/p>\n<p>Barmann also has recipes for shots. I made the Rum Shooter of Fire, which consists of green Chartreuse and 151-proof rum (I replaced it with Everclear), and then lighting the shot on fire. This shot was fun and really packs a strong punch.<\/p>\n<p>Of note, some of the recipes are existing cocktails with Harry Potter names added to them. For example, the Good Old Fashioned Liquid Luck is just a regular bourbon Old Fashioned, and the Lionheart Kir Royale is just a standard Kir Royale.<\/p>\n<p>Still, these concoctions would make for fun drinks while you&#8217;re watching the Harry Potter movies or having a theme party.<\/p>\n<p>You can purchase The Unofficial Hogwarts Cocktail Book on Amazon.com and at Barnes &amp; Noble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As evident from my past reviews, I love themed cocktail recipe books, so I happily accepted an offer to check out\u00a0The Unofficial Hogwarts Cocktail Book: Spellbinding Spritzes, Fantastical Old-Fashioneds, Magical Margaritas and More Enchanting Recipes ($19.95, Ulysses Press).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8018"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8025,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018\/revisions\/8025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}