Taps & TropesA Bartender With A Book Problem

#drinkthisbook

Drink
This Book

Every book gets a drink. That's the whole idea, and it's meant literally — you tell me about a novel, I read it, and I build a cocktail that tastes like it. Then it goes on a card your readers can keep.

If you found this on a coaster, in somebody's drink photo, or under a hashtag — that's the point of it. Somebody raised a glass to a book they loved, and now you're here.

17 books, 17 drinks

Each of these started as somebody's novel. The drink came out of reading it — the mood of it, the two people at the middle of it, sometimes a single scene that wouldn't leave me alone.

Wet Dreams — drink this book: the cocktail built for Hollyhocks by January Rayne

Wet Dreams

for Hollyhocks by January Rayne

You Taste So Good — drink this book: the cocktail built for Snapdragons by January Rayne

You Taste So Good

for Snapdragons by January Rayne

The Warrior — drink this book: the cocktail built for Teach Me by Red Phoenix

The Warrior

for Teach Me by Red Phoenix

Solar Flare — drink this book: the cocktail built for White Hole by Kitty King

Solar Flare

for White Hole by Kitty King

Whiskey Ginger & Peach — drink this book: the cocktail built for Ruthless Salvation by Jill Ramsower

Whiskey Ginger & Peach

for Ruthless Salvation by Jill Ramsower

Apple Pie on the Rocks — drink this book: the cocktail built for Red Night by Kitty King

Apple Pie on the Rocks

for Red Night by Kitty King

All 17cards →

Use the tag

If you've got a card, or you've made one of the recipes, or you've simply built a drink to go with whatever you're reading tonight — post it with #drinkthisbookand I'll find it. That tag is where all of this lives.

It works the other way too. Search drink this bookafter you spot it on a coaster and you'll end up back here, which is rather the point of printing it on something people take home.

Where drink this book came from

I couldn't draw character art. But I could mix a cocktail — so that's what I made for the books I loved, and then for other people's, and then it turned into this.

Taps & Tropes is what happened when I stopped keeping books and bartending apart.

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Before you go

Every book gets a drink

A recipe when I've built one worth passing on, news about the book, and the odd story from behind the bar. Not often.

One click to leave, on every email. What I do with it.