This book is a product that was born not at a desk, but at the counter of the Golem bar in the Hamburg Fish Market - a favorite place for the exchange of ideas of the local intellectual bohemia. The compilers of the collection are the founders of "Golem", the German playwright Anselm Lenz and the art manager Alvaro Rodrigo Pinha Otei, a native of Chile. The nature of the texts included in the collection varies from serious and thorough to sublimely pathetic, and their genre palette - from detective stories to cultural studies essay. Equipped with twelve recipes for the cocktails served at The Golem, the book is intended to serve as an intellectual companion for the modern dandy through the ghostly worlds created by one or another alcoholic drink. In addition, this is a universal guide to recreating the atmosphere of courtly drinking culture at home.