Build a complete home bar with just 12 key bottles, yielding more than 200 different cocktails for less than $3 a drink. Includes suggestions for bottles in every budget, appendices on entertaining and tools of the trade, lively anecdotes and lore, and more than 200 cocktail recipes organized by spirit and flavor.

David Solmonson and Lesley Jacobs Solmonson are the husband-and-wife publishers of the popular blog 12bottlebar.com. Mr. Solmonson has written for both film and television, while Ms. Solmonson, spirits and wine writer for L.A. Weekly, is also the author of Gin: A Global History and the forthcoming Liqueur: A Global History. The Solmonsons live in Los Angeles.