Liquid Intelligence, a new book by (friend of Popular Science) Dave Arnold. The book is a canonical manual to a better way of understanding and making cocktails. "Think like a scientist and you will make better drinks," Arnold says in the introduction, and then shows how. The balance of sugar and acidity in a cocktail is critical to its taste, so Arnold compiled a chart, below, showing the balance of sugar and acid in 55 popular cocktails.
I recently constructed a database of cocktail recipes, including both classics and my own, so I could analyze them for ethanol content, sugar, acidity,…
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