In 2015, two roommates in Astoria, Queens set out to answer a simple question: what exactly is the wizardry behind a good cocktail?

Every cocktail book they opened was written by a mixologist with a full bar, a rare tincture, and a bottle of something imported from a hidden shop in a Kashmiri bazaar. So Craig and Bo stocked their favorite basics, watched a few YouTube videos, and muddled their way toward something better: drinks you can actually make at home, tonight, with what you already have.

Sazerac Inhale strips cocktails down to what matters. Every recipe is written in ratios instead of measurements, so any glass, jigger, or thimble will do. Learn the two families nearly every cocktail belongs to — bitter and sour — and why everything past that is avocado on the toast. Then work through more than eighty classics organized by base spirit, from the Old Fashioned and the Negroni to the Vieux Carré, alongside a handful of the authors' own inventions, misfires, and inside jokes.

No mixology degree. No dusty bottles. Just good drinks, made simply, at the end of a long day. Cheers.