
My edition: Jonathan Cape 2006.
Root beer – p. 24, 39
Old Gideon – p. 40, 309, 313
Mickeys of red, white, muscatel – p. 55
Home-brewed potato spirits – p. 82, 84, 89, 96, 189
Vintage Champagne – p. 111, 435
Imported Danish aquavit – p. 132
A ’96 Champagne frappéd in local ice – p. 138
Sillery wine – p. 162
Bucelas wine – p. 168
Valley Tan whiskey – p. 180
Some kind of brandy – p. 185, 331
Whiskey with turpentine and sulphuric acid – p. 211
A twelve-year-old Speyside malt – p. 230
Cigarettes soaked in absinthe – p. 233
Condy’s fluid (permanganate disinfectant mixed with methylated spirits) – p. 234
Dense, warm, unaerated English beer – p. 240
Prosecco – p. 247, 724, 868
Sparkling Valpolicella – p. 247
Wedding punch with Everclear, peach juice, and ‘certain Scandinavian ingredients’ – p. 266, 267
Slings – p. 278
Sours – p. 278
Highballs – p. 278
Fizzes – p. 278
Menudo with tripe soaked in tequila – p. 286
Home-brewed beer – p. 287, 308
McBryan’s whiskey – p. 290
Squirrel and sarsaparilla – p. 294
A small glass of diluted wine – p. 303
A labelless bottle of bourbon – p.313
Pear wine – p. 338
Perrier Jouët – p. 348
Drugged incandescent punch – p. 350
Sean O’Farrells / boilermakers – p. 360, 382, 974
$3.50-a-quart Champagne – p. 368
Ramos gin fizz – p. 370, 639, 1034
New Orleans beer – p. 373
Fermented maguey juice (pulque) – p. 376, 377, 395, 925
Budweiser – p. 395
Double shots of Taos Lightning – p. 463
Audit ale – p. 492
Laudanum with whiskey chasers – p. 507
Fermented potato mash – p. 517
Absinthe – p. 529, 530, 561, 850
‘Monopole de la Maison’ – p. 533
No-name wine – p. 535, 849
Absinthe mixed with Champagne – p. 542
Vino forte from Brindisi, Squinzano, and Barletta – p. 579, 582
A spiked drink – p. 621
Rheinpfalz – p. 629
Herrgottsacker – p. 629
Hofstück Deidesheimer- p. 629
Bohemia beer – p. 642
Doubles of Cuervo Extra – p. 642
Schnapps – p. 662
Poison Champagne – p. 670
Opiated highballs of British cough syrup and aerated water – p. 678
Munich beer – p. 680
Velvet (porter and Champagne) – p. 682
Grappa – p. 706, 734, 739, 857, 1011
Pommery – p. 744
Gül kän (fermented rose petals) – p. 773
’99 Château Lafite – p. 787
Sage-flavoured grappa – p. 826
Raki – p. 828
Žilavka with seltzer water – p. 829
Spiked beer – p. 843
Pineapple Marquises with trois-six chasers – p. 849
Casanovas (Venice gin fizzes) – p. 854, 857
Kadulja (herbal grappa) – p. 870
Garfagnana red wine (mushrooms and chestnuts simmered in) – p. 888
A Champagne cocktail – p. 911, 974
‘Love in the shadows of Pera’ (Creme de Menthe and beer) – p. 912
A Crocodile (equal parts rum, absinthe, and trois-six) – p. 941
Homemade Dimyat – p. 947
Homemade Misket – p. 947
Tikveš wine – p. 964
Rakia – p. 971
Orizaba beer – p. 986
Madrileños – p. 988
A Balthazar of ’03 Verzenay – p. 1019
Spanish wine – p. 1023
Cranberry-flavoured beer fermented from black bread (?) – p. 1024
Homemade schnapps – p. 1026
Tequila and orange juice – p. 1057
California Champagne – p. 1058
Some vermouth concoction – p. 1069
Do Nobili – p. 1073
Magnums of 1920 Puisieulx brut – p. 1084