As always, the biggest thanks of all must go to my family (Laura, Dexter, Robin) for allowing me to lock myself away in a dark room with a load of alcohol for six months.
Thanks to Addie, Sari and Matt for helping to make the drinks in this book look awesome. Thanks to Nathan for making the sentences in this book make perfect sense. Thanks, once again, to all of the team at RPS and beyond for placing reckless levels of trust in me: Cindy, David, Geoff, Julia, Leslie and Trish.
I’d also like to thank the following people, who have had ideas bounced off them, contributed a historical tidbit that has found its way in to this book, or just bought me a drink and sat with me while I drank it:
T. Aske, J. Burger, S. Calabrese, F. Campbell, R. Chetiyawardana, A. Dedianko, J. Fowler, A. Francis, I. Griffiths, D. Haldane, C. Harper, M. Helm, E. Holcroft, J. Kluger, F. Limon, E. Lorincz, D. Moncrieffe, D. McGuirk, S. Scott, C. Shannon, C. Warner, T. Solberg and B. Wilson.