Let's Get Tropical is a great cookbook which has over 50 fruity tropical drinks from tiki mai tais to Cuban mojitos.

The book explains these classic cocktail recipes along with their heritage. Easy to follow and detailed instructions make this a great book to have nearby.

This cookbook of tropical drink recipes will be great for entertaining. There are tons of yummy-sounding drink recipes, as well as insight into how to best present them.

With only 144 pages, this little cocktail book still manages to be thorough without being monotonous. Every recipe comes with a description and a picture, making each page very aesthetically pleasing and easy to understand. There are the “obvious” tropical drinks like the Piña Coloda, Mai Tai, and Tequila Sunrise, yet each one includes variations of these classics, even some non-alcolohilc options. There’s also a section of the more innovative and complicated drinks, which all sound delicious.

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I loved this book. When reading, I noticed at first glance this was a cocktail book for a particular type of grown-up. It was not stuffy at all, but it had an air of class that was refreshing. I enjoyed the alternative options for drinks, including the non-alcoholic versions for people who do not imbibe. The images were beautiful and made the drinks appealing, and the recipes for making syrups - were excellent additions. Besides the format being aesthetically pleasing and straightforward, the format of this book was engaging. I would recommend, and when this book does become available, I will be purchases - unless someone wants to send me a copy.

I will definitely purchase for friends this holiday season.

Just like a tropical cocktail, this book was fun. Coming in at just 144 pages, "Let's Get Tropical" is short and sweet but manages to give a nice introduction to the flavorful world of the tropical cocktail. Besides a very short introduction on how rum is made and what kind of tropical spirits are available, there are also about sixty recipes with mouthwatering pictures and easy graphics.

Most of the recipes are labeled as classics, such as the Piña Colada, the Daiquiri and the Mai Tai. If you have some knowledge about cocktails you will probably be familiar with all of those already, but I liked the addition of the modern twists and the alcohol-free versions.

The few new and modern cocktails are nothing spectacular and include more unusual ingredients, but it is nice to see what mixologists come up with these days when it comes to tropical drinks. I may not necessarily make them at home myself, but they give a nice idea on what to do if you want to create your own recipes. The most valuable part of the book was the base recipe to make your own punch, something which always puzzled me in the past when I tried to make a big batch for a party.

Even though I didn't learn many new things, except for some short history behind the cocktails I have always loved, I like having a one-stop book for all my tropical cocktail needs, most of which can be made with ingredients you already have in your kitchen and liquor cabinet.

Very creative and delicious cocktails. The recipes are made or presented by Georgi. His is a bar owner and he shares his knowledge. The book contains sections about how the alcohol is made and a large selection of tropical blends. The tutorials are well explained and the results are professional. Ready for this summer!

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I enjoyed the format of the companion volume - Let’s Get Fizzical - so much that I requested an advance reader copy of Let’s Get Tropical as soon as I saw it pop up on NetGalley. My hope was that all the winning aspects of the companion volume - the illustrated recipes, the simple variations, and the gorgeous photographs - would be duplicated in this volume. I was not disappointed!

The book is divided into two parts: roughly forty pages of introductory matter and roughly one hundred pages of classic and modern cocktail recipes. The introductory matter started with a history of tropical cocktails and a primer on rum, then progressed through seemingly standard sections on mixology tools and techniques, and finished with specific information on how to design, garnish, and serve tropical cocktails. My favorite pages in this section were the “Make Your Own Mix” pages, which explained the 1-2-3-4 formula to inventing your own tropical drink.

The recipes did not disappoint. They were well illustrated and gorgeously photographed. Many of the recipes had “reinventions,” some of which were even alcohol free. I was happy that I saw a lot of my favorites - Blue Lagoon, Mai Tai, Hurricane, Mojito - but with the authentic recipes (as opposed to the simplified recipes that I use). There were also a lot of fabulous traditional tiki drinks that I had heard of but never tasted. It was curious that the Pornstar Martini appeared both in this book and the previous sparkling cocktails book, but that was the only recipe to overlap between the two. Even curiouser was that the recipe in this book had a shot of champagne served on the side, whereas in the sparkling cocktails book the champagne was integral to the drink. Which way is the right way to prepare the drink? Both look good! After the classics, there were about a dozen recipes for “modern tropical” cocktails. These were also quite interesting, although more varied and exotic in the ingredients, so they would be lower on my list of the recipes to attempt.

I have yet to mix any of the cocktails from this book. When I do, I will update this review.

A decidedly helpful and informative guide to tropical drinks. I really appreciated the tips on mixing skills, types of glasses, presentation, etc. - they're going to be great help for a novice like me! The reinventions of some of the traditional drinks were also inspiring; it freed me to feel like I could experiment more instead of sticking rigidly to the recipes. Everything looked delicious, and I can't wait to get tropical!

I received a digital ARC from the publisher via Netgalley.