Holy Spirits: Cocktails Inspired by the Saints, Scholars & Sinners of Church History

60 saints, scholars, and sinners. 60 original cocktails. One extraordinary evening of church history. They were not footnotes. They were mystics, reformers, and martyrs, people who wrestled with the largest questions available to human beings and left behind answers still being argued about today. They deserved to be met, not merely studied. They deserved a table, not just a shelf. Hence the cocktails. Holy Spirits pairs a vivid, unsanitized biography with an original, fully-tested cocktail for each of 60 major figures in Christian history - from Irenaeus of Lyon and Perpetua of Carthage to Martin Luther, Teresa of Ávila, C.S. Lewis, and N.T. Wright. Every recipe is a deliberate act of interpretation: the Moravian slivovitz in Jan Hus's glass, the "no garnish" instruction in Karl Barth's Old Fashioned, the two drinks served side by side for Søren Kierkegaard's Either/Or. Every ingredient has been chosen and every tasting note written with the conviction that how we make and share a drink can say something true about how a person lived and what they believed. Inside you'll find: - 60 original cocktail recipes, organized chronologically across four eras - the Early Church, the Medieval Church, the Reformation, and the Modern era- A biography for each figure - honest, well-researched, and often very funny- Tasting notes that connect flavor to theology, not just garnish to gimmick- Non-alcoholic alternatives for many recipes, because the table in this book is open to everyone- A full ingredients shopping guide organized by era, plus a specialty-ingredients sourcing guide for the harder-to-find bottles This book does not sanitize its subjects. The saints were sometimes sinners. The scholars were sometimes wrong. The sinners were sometimes the ones who told the truth when everyone else had decided it was too uncomfortable. The subtitle means what it says. Whether you're a church history enthusiast, a home bartender looking for cocktails with real depth behind them, or someone who just wants a genuinely good reason to gather people around a table and argue about grace - Holy Spirits is built for you. Pull up a chair. Pour something. The evening is just beginning.