Recipe for a liturgically correct cocktail: mix Bartender’s Guide and Lives of the Saints, shake well, garnish with good cheer. Drinking with the Saints is a concoction that both sinner and saint will savor.

Michael Foley offers the faithful drinker witty and imaginative instruction on the appropriate libations for the seasons, feasts, and saints’ days of the Church year. In these pages, you'll find a guide to wine, beer, and spirits, and more than 300 cocktail recipes, lively sketches of scores of saints, from the popular to the obscure, plus tips on giving the perfect toast and on mixing the perfect drink. Even includes drinks for Lent! You'll find a chapter for the feasts of the saints for each month of the year, plus chapters on each of the liturgical seasons of the year, too.

"This book is certain to reunite more than a few Catholics and Shakers. A well-researched and entertaining work––only the humor and martinis are dry." ––Philip Greene, cofounder of the Museum of the American Cocktail and author of To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion.

Hardcover, 487 pages. 2015.