Exposition Universelles des Vins et Spiritueux

EUVS FREE LIBRARY

A freely accessible starting point for serious cocktail and spirits research. The Exposition Universelle des Vins et Spiritueux Library preserves and shares the printed record of drink culture: cocktail manuals, bartending guides, spirits writing, trade literature, and the stories behind them. Explore these materials as a reader, researcher, bartender, writer, or collector—and follow the trail back to the original source.

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Working library shelves filled with cocktail, bartending, and spirits history books

The collection

Begin your research

Cocktail books & manuals

Browse historic works that chart the changing language, techniques, and rituals of the mixed drink.

Spirits & ingredients

Trace the people, places, and raw materials that have shaped the world’s most enduring spirits.

Bartenders & bars

Explore the professional histories, hotel bars, and personalities behind drinks culture.

Free access to the EUVS Library

We believe that history helps shape the future. And to that end, we have scanned and uploaded some of our favourite classic cocktail and distillation books from our extensive personal library in flipbook format.

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No membership costs. No fees. Just education as it should be.

An invitation to investigate

Read closely. Cite carefully.

A reliable history is built from primary sources, context, and a willingness to test every good story. Use the library to discover the detail that turns a familiar drink into a more interesting question. If you want a notebook to store all for your findings, get a copy of The Historical Researcher's Journal below.

The Historical Researcher's Journal

Every cocktail has a paper trail. This journal gives you a place to keep it — sources, citations, dates, discrepancies, and the loose ends you'll want to come back to. Built on the system Dr Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown have used across 30+ years of researching and writing drinks history, it takes you through the research process step by step and keeps your findings in order for years to come.

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