The Ice Book

Camper English is a cocktail writer and ice obsessive best known for introducing a technique for making crystal-clear ice to cocktail connoisseurs about a decade ago.

(New York Times)

English is a world-renowned ice expert. He is the author of "The Ice Book: Cool Cubes, Clear Spheres, and Other Chill Cocktail Crafts" and, after spending more than decade experimenting with all the different ways one can freeze water, he pioneered the "clear ice" technique that most professional bartenders now use to make ice.

(Salon)

the year's hottest release

(Drinks International)

English... is one of the biggest names in the cocktail world

(Vanity Fair)

perhaps the pre-eminent cocktail ice scholar

(The Guardian)

The foremost authority on ice in the country (maybe the world).

(MarthaStewart.com)

Camper English, who writes about cocktails and spirits and pioneered the technique that most professionals now use to make ice (after experimenting with the frozen stuff for a decade).

(New York Magazine's The Strategist)

Camper English is the booze writer's booze writer—the one we all turn to for true histories, unassailable facts, and clarity (of both explanation and ice).

- Adam Rogers, author of Proof: The Science of Booze and Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern