Beverages & Wine

The Bourbon Tasting Notebook

The Bourbon Tasting Notebookis an essential logbook for any bourbon enthusiast. With a record amount of bourbon whiskey aging in warehouses and visits to Kentucky’s bourbon distilleries topping half a million annually, it is obvious that bourbon is enjoying unprecedented popularity. This logbook will give the bourbon lover the perfect way to track their samplings, with over 200 …

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The Home Distilling and Infusing Handbook, Second Edition: Make Your Own Whiskey & Bourbon Blends, Infused Spirits, Cordials & Liqueurs

Create your own signature blends at home with the fully updated and newly expanded edition of The Home Distilling and Infusing Handbook, featuring dozens of creative infusion recipes!Like to dabble, invent, experiment, and concoct? Like to drink? Move beyond bartending and learn how to combine alcohol with herbs, spices, fruit, and more to create your own custom blends! …

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Whiskey Wonderful: 60 #Delish Whiskey Recipes

Looking for that unique ingredient to jazz up your recipes? Try adding your favorite whiskey for a one-of-a-kind taste sensation! Bourbon, firewater, moonshine, hooch—no matter what you call it, it’s the perfect distilled spirit for a crisp, cool drink or a simmering, savory eat! This cookbook offers 60 options (cocktails and entrees) just waiting to be indulged! There …

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Jiggers and Drams: Whisky Journal

Embark on a unique whisky, bourbon, and rye odyssey with Jiggers and Drams: Whisky Journal! This handy reference guide and personal notebook will help you to fine-tune your senses as you record ratings and observations of bourbons, whiskys, and ryes tasted. Enjoy pages of information on each type of brown distilled spirit – bourbons, whiskys, ryes and …

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Shots of Knowledge: The Science of Whiskey

Shots of Knowledge is a guidebook for whiskey lovers. Organized into approximately sixty illustrated essays, the book samples selected topics in whiskey production through the lenses of science and engineering.   While the essays are subdivided into three sections—From Sunshine to Sugar, From Wee Beasties to White Dogs, and From Barrel to Brain—the reader is free to sip …

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Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey

Without women, whiskey may not exist. In Whiskey Women, Wall Street Journal-bestselling author Fred Minnick tells the tales of women who have created this industry, from Mesopotamia’s first beer brewers and distillers to America’s rough-and-tough bootleggers during Prohibition. Women have long distilled, marketed, and owned spirits companies. These strong women built many iconic brands, including Bushmills, Laphroaig, and Maker’s Mark. …

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The Kentucky Bourbon Cookbook

Once thought to be only the tipple of southern gentlemen and the companion of confederate roughnecks, bourbon has gained a steady resurgence in popularity over the years with an ever-expanding and diverse audience. A beverage distilled almost exclusively in Kentucky, bourbon has attained prominence and appreciation for its complexity, history, and tradition. In The Kentucky Bourbon Cookbook, Albert …

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1001 Whiskies You Must Taste Before You Die (1001 (Universe))

This latest volume in the hugely popular 1001 series supplies the connoisseurs’ scoop on the finest spirits from the Scottish highlands to the exotic new whiskies emanating from Japan and the evolving world of American micro-distilleries. The book also covers bourbons and ryes, making this the go-to volume for the serious whisky connoisseur as well as the passionate …

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Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey: An American Heritage

On May 4, 1964, Congress designated bourbon as a distinctive product of the United States, and it remains the only spirit produced in this country to enjoy such protection. Its history stretches back almost to the founding of the nation and includes many colorful characters, both well known and obscure, from the hatchet-wielding prohibitionist Carry Nation to George …

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Whiskey: The Definitive World Guide

From grain to glass, “Whiskey tells you everything and anything you’ll ever want to know about whiskey, from storing and serving whiskey, whiskey cocktails, to pairing whiskey with food. Whether interested in the story behind aromas and flavors, what makes certain distilleries unique or how weather and environment influence taste–this is the most fascinating illustrated examination of whiskey …

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