Modifiers & Bitters

Explore the ingredients that transform cocktails: vermouth, amari, liqueurs, fortified wines, and bitters, with practical guidance for balancing flavor, texture, aroma, and depth.

What You’ll Master

Complete the Codex Collection and you'll stop memorizing recipes and start reasoning about them — the framework behind every cocktail you'll ever build.

The Six Families

Internalize the structural logic that connects every classic cocktail — and most modern ones — into one teachable system.

Recipe Fluency

Read a new recipe and immediately know what it's doing and why.

Confident Substitutions

Swap spirits, modifiers, and proportions without breaking a drink.

Original Builds

Compose your own cocktails from the ground up using the same framework Death & Co uses to develop new menus.

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“The classics are the grammar. Everything else is conversation.”

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