I have a new revision of my bartender’s guide entitled Admiral of the Blue Apron’s Bartender’s Guide Book which will replace the Thee Fort Mifflin Bartenders’ Guide Book: A View into Colonial Era Spirits and Cocktails from Amazon. It contains several significant updates so if you don’t have a copy yet, consider buying one for yourself of someone you know who loves history and cocktails. I have also made significant updates to Beers and Beer Stories by the Regimental Brewmeister. I will have these at events throughout 2024 so why not come to an event and take a copy home with you.  These books are my research for into the process of making beer and cocktails in the 18th Century and I have recipes which have been adapted to use modern equipment and materials so you can brew like its 1770.

Many of you have asked me to accept the modern equivalent of promissory notes (credit cards) and while transactions on credit by the East India Company are a significant part of the crisis between Parliament and Massachusetts, we are inclined to put our customers first (BUT NO TEA!).  The Regimental Brewmeister now accepts credit cards through Square.

So here is the deal.

  • Beers and Beer Stories by the Regimental Brewmeister  sells on Amazon for $20 (Note that the current “sale” is Amazon’s attempt to offload some books I returned as defective.  DO NOT buy the $5.92 copies unless you are willing to deal with this problem!).  I am continuing to sell signed copies at events for $15.00.
  • I absorb sales tax and credit card fees (Amazon does not) as a cost of doing business and if you are carrying the book home the shipping costs are trivial. If you ask me to ship to you, I will ship as a First Class USPS package.
  • Give these as gifts to your favorite history buff, homebrewer, or cocktail maker.
  • Most events also have free beer samples so why not come out.  Next opportunities to grab a copy before the holidays are:
    • December 9 – Deck the Alley, Elfreth’s Alley (Philadelphia, PA)
    • January 10 — Talk on Colonial Brewing (Blue Ball Barn, Alapocas Run State Park, 1914 W. Park Drive, Wilmington, DE)
    • January 20 — Regimental Brewer at Rittenhouse Town
    • January 27 — Colonial Plantation Winter Masquerade (Kings Mills, 6000 Pennell Rd, Media, PA 19063)

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Published by Michael Carver

My goal is to bring history alive through interactive portrayal of ordinary American life in the late 18th Century (1750—1799) My persona are: Journeyman Brewer; Cordwainer (leather tradesman but not cobbler), Statesman and Orator; Chandler (candle and soap maker); Gentleman Scientist; and, Soldier in either the British Regular Army, the Centennial Army, or one of the various Militia. Let me help you experience history 1st hand!