Full Description
What connects Samuel Maverick, Mary Dowling, Cornelis Melyn, and Burebista to whisky? Which distillery was the birthplace of the IRA's rebellion? Why should you not mix up bottled-in-bond with bottle-in-box? Which dynamic distillery proudly claims, "If it gets someone drunk, we'll make it" as their team motto? What led to the murder of skilled distiller William Johnston by the enchanting Lou Parris? Which whisky was packaged in a tin can that needed to be opened like sardines, using a key? And exactly how much whisky is in a 'tot' and a 'sniffer'? If these questions have piqued your curiosity, the answers (and many more) await you in this book's 63 1/2 surprising and often humorous whisky anecdotes. The author, drawing on his extensive experience as a travel and whisky journalist, shares these stories in his signature tongue-in-cheek style. Readers of his previous works will recognise the unpredictability of each story. This book pairs perfectly with a fine whisky.
Contents
Intro
1. Barleycorn
2. Welsh whisky
3. What Is a Tot?
4. Cambus
5. Mount Vernon Distillery
6. Cornelis Melyn
7. Water
8. Boilermaker
9. Drinking Licence
10. Bottled in Bond
11. D of T
12. John Walker whisky
13. Christmas whisky
14. Bourbon
15. La Colonne Belge
16. Drinking whisky responsibly
17. Whisky time
18. Waterloo whisky
19. Nancy and the apple whisky
20. Shebeen
21. Kosher whisky
22. Mary Dowling
23. Bunnahabhain
24. The 'Whisky Watch'
25. Playing with whisky
26. Uisge beatha
27. Knickerbocker whisky
28. Cashew 'whisky'
29. Women's protest and Burebista
30. Forget 1495! Whisky is older
31. Triple distillation
32. The I'm Alone incident
33. Black and White
34. Crown Royal Whisky
35. What is 'The Whisky Case'
36. Aqua vitae
37. Peak whisky
38. Pompeying
39. Flee from Rangha
40. Gaelic whisky
41. The Coles Distillery
42. Kiwi-whisky
43. Bootleggers' hooch
44. ABV
45. The whisky capsule storm
46. Woman + whisky
47. De Frongoch Distillery
48. Enzyme
49. Whisky as a weapon
50. Aber Falls Distillery
51. Whisky, love and murder
52. Pot ale
53. White Dog
54. Tasting blind
55. Whisky (un)certainties
56. Samuel Maverick and the SMWS
57. Whisky Highball
58. Spirit safe
59. Wi' usquabae, we'll face the devil!
60. Slainte Mhath
61. Penderyn I, Penderyn II, Penderyn III
62. AI whisky
63. One for the road
63.5 Cheers
