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

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

Autor Fred Minnick
en Limba Engleză Hardback – oct 2013
Best All-Time Booze Book, Eater.com2013
GOLD Winner for Women Studies, ForeWord Reviews 2014
Silver, Independent Publisher Award in Women's Issues
Finalist, Spirited Awards

Shortly after graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1934, Elizabeth “Bessie” Williamson began working as a temporary secretary at the Laphroaig Distillery on the Scottish island Islay. Williamson quickly found herself joining the boys in the tasting room, studying the distillation process, and winning them over with her knowledge of Scottish whisky.
After the owner of Laphroaig passed away, Williamson took over the prestigious company and became the spokesperson in America for the entire Scotch whisky industry. Impressing clients and showing her passion as the Scotch Whisky Association’s trade ambassador, she soon gained fame within the industry.
Whiskey Women 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 significant shares in spirits companies, including Bushmills, Johnnie Walker, and Maker’s Mark. Williamson’s story is one of many among the influential women who greatly influenced Scotch, bourbon, and Irish whiskey. Until now their stories have remained untold.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781612345642
ISBN-10: 1612345646
Pagini: 236
Ilustrații: 27 photographs, 3 illustrations, index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Potomac Books Inc
Colecția Potomac Books
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Wall Street Journal best-selling author FRED MINNICK, once an army journalist in Iraq, writes the award-winning “American Whiskey” column for TASTING PANEL Magazine and “Toasting the Hunt” column for Covey Rise. A regular contributor to Caviar Affair, Costco Connection, Whisky Magazine, and Whisky Advocate, Minnick has widely written about the spirits industry, traveling around the world covering everything from Limoncello in Sorrento, Italy, to Malbec wine in Mendoza, Argentina. Minnick is a member of the Author’s Guild and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Meridith May, publisher of TASTING PANEL, calls Minnick “one of the best whiskey storytellers in the business.”

Cuprins

A Note to Readers
Introduction
1. Before Whiskey
2. The First Distillations
3. Tough Irish Women
4. Early Scotch Whisky Women
5. Early American Women
6. The Targeted and Early Marketers
7. Temperance Women
8. Women Moonshiners and Bootleggers in Prohibition
9. Repeal Women Saving Whiskey
10. The Post-Prohibition Legal Battles
11. Post-Prohibition Women Bootleggers
12. Whiskey's Progressive Side
13. The Lady of Laphroaig
14. Modern Women
15. Organizing the Whiskey Effort
16. For Women, by Women
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index  

Recenzii

"Forget umbrellas in cocktails: Kentucky journalist Fred Minnick shows us how the fairer sex established liquor techniques, culture, and tastes as we know it today."—Damon Brown, Esquire

“[Whiskey Women] is an important examination of liquor history and offers a number of profiles of trailblazers. Inspiring.”—Lew Bryson, the Daily Beast
 

"This enjoyable book leaves readers feeling a way they’re likely not accustomed to after such a wild, whiskey soaked ride: enlightened."—Jen A. Miller, American Way

"Deeply researched and takes an interesting angle (the role of women) as a way to talk about whiskey from a fresh perspective."—Kara Newman, Tipple Sheet

"This is a great book. Whether you are into whiskey, history or both this deserves a place on your book shelf."—Eric Burke, Bourbon Guy.com

"[Whiskey Women is] an enjoyable read of thoughtfully-assembled facts and stories illuminating the forgotten women of apothecaries and distilleries past."—Virginia Miller, Liquor.com

“Fred Minnick gives us an entertaining look at booze’s little-known history—including its links to childhood medicine, witchcraft, and the eighteenth-century mail order bride business. This book goes down smooth.”—A. J. Jacobs, New York Times best-selling author of The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

"Whether you're a hop-head or a spirit imbiber, Whiskey Women is an entertaining and unexpected look at the role of women in the spirits industry."—Lindsey Kate Reynolds, Southern Foodways Alliance

“The known history of whiskey changes with Whiskey Women. Fred Minnick has dug deep and come up with gold on the tremendous contribution women have made at each step in the history and evolution of this much-storied beverage. Whiskey Women is a real game changer.”—Davin de Kergommeaux, award-winning author of Canadian Whisky: The Portable Expert


"A book that's well worth buying."—Reid Mitenbuler, Drinks

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Whiskey Women tells the tales of women who created the whiskey industry, from Mesopotamia’s first beer brewers and distillers to America’s rough-and-tough Prohibition bootleggers.