![]() If you want to know your American whiskey history, Mitenbuler’s book is the one to read. Anyone else would have begin the story with the Whiskey Rebellion, but he goes to the 20th century. It’s informative enough, but the writing style is somewhat annoying and the perspective too boosterish to really provide objective value. ![]() Last year brought us a candidate in the form of Dane Hucklebridge’s Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit. Max Watman’s Chasing the White Dogis thrilling and does a great job with illegal alcohol from the Whiskey Rebellion on through the present day, but doesn’t talk all that much about the stuff that we actually drink. And of course there are David Wondrich’s books Imbibe and Punch, which are excellent general histories of drinking culture. ![]() ![]() Well, there’s King’s County Distillery Guide to Moonshining, which is a nice guide to production processes and the contemporary landscape of the American spirits business, but doesn’t have the narrative flow that I wanted it to. When I mentioned to a friend Reid Mitenbuler’s Bourbon Empireis my favorite history of bourbon, I got a raised eyebrow in response. ![]()
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