Botanical Bar Craft
For cocktail enthusiasts, foragers, bartenders and herbalists, Botanical Bar Craft serves up truly original, spirited recipes – plus invaluable plant knowledge – inspired by adventures in the garden and forest.
In Botanical Bar Craft, you’ll discover original recipes that tie together the creative arts of herbal medicine and craft cocktail making. Herbalist and mixologist Cassandra Sears blends herbal tinctures, teas, and botanical infusions into modern-classic cocktails as well as sensational and unique nonalcoholic drinks that hit the spot for relaxation.
Cassandra’s work is infused by her close connection to nature. Whether in the garden, field or forest, she discovers inspiration for delicious concoctions among the trees and plants and shares her delicious discoveries in this essential new guide. Her tonic libations harness the power of phytochemistry and place-based consciousness while easing stress and comforting the body, mind and spirit.
Inside Botanical Bar Craft, you’ll also find:
- 65 original recipes for tonics, elixirs, and cocktails, including Kava Cacao Flip, Pregnancy Punch, Victory Garden, Bloody Botanist, Bitters and Soda, Juice of Life, and Euphoria.
- More than 40 plant profiles that include how those plants grow and suggestions for how to use them behind the bar to draw out their beneficial properties.
- An easy-to-understand guide to the chemistry and energetics of medicinal herbs.
- Advice and tips for growing a garnish garden.
More than just a collection of recipes, Botanical Bar Craft is an herbal handbook for bartenders and a mixology guide for herbalists. Readers will delight in the journey as Cassandra combines dashes of herbal lore and history with lessons on mixology and instructions for developing the spirited philosophy of apothecary bartending, resulting in refreshing, restorative and most importantly, delicious botanical beverages.
Cassandra Elizabeth Sears is an apothecary bartender, gardener, and herbalist. She has been studying herbal medicine for sixteen years, growing lush gardens while working as an organic gardener, and playing in the wild while mixing drinks inspired by nature. She enjoys the dynamic intersection of the hospitality industry, wilderness, and organic agriculture in her native state of Maine. You can find her behind the bar part-time at The White Barn Inn in Kennebunkport. The rest of the time, you can find her elevating private events and teaching botanical cocktail classes in her role as proprietor of The Remedy Cocktail Co., for which she grows her own ingredients and works closely with local small farmers. She enjoys creative collaborations and brand ambassador work with likeminded businesses, as well as creative menu design and consulting for new ventures. A graduate of the clinical herbalist training program at the Vermont Center of Integrative Herbalism, she has a modest apothecary and private wellness consultation practice where she partners with individuals for health-coaching