Peter Krass (Author), BLOOD & WHISKEY.

The Life and Times of Jack Daniel

The first-ever biography of the man who created America's most famous whiskey.
Born in Lynchburg, Tennessee, in 1850, Jack Daniel became a legendary moonshiner at age 15 before launching a legitimate distillery ten years later. By the time he died in 1911, he was an American legend-and his Old No. 7 Tennessee sipping whiskey was an international sensation, the winner of gold medals at the St. Louis World's Fair and the Liege International Exposition in Belgium. Blood and Whiskey captures Daniel's indomitable rise in the rough-edged world of the nineteenth-century whiskey trade and shows how his commitment to quality (his whiskey was always charcoal-filtered) and his flair for marketing and packaging (he launched his distinctive square bottle in 1895) helped create one of America's most venerable and recognizable brands. The book tells

Our recommendation: Definitely buy and read this book—great stories about Jack Daniels, and you'll learn a lot about American history in a very entertaining way.

Leider gibt es keine deutsche Ausgabe des Buches.

150 Bars You Need to Visit Before You Die: Revised edition (150 Series) Hardcover, Author: Jurgen Lijcops, Lannoo Publishers, Tilt Belgium – 2022   

Beautiful Coffee-Table Book includes 150 Bars worldwide. 

Sir Ernest Shackleton could never have imagined his name being closely associated with whisky, certainly not in the title of a book. Rarely did he consume strong drink. On his expeditions, he tolerated a 'mild spree' at times of celebration. But that was all. Drinking to excess appalled him. From an early age, growing up in a teetotal home, he was wary of alcohol. How, then, must he have felt about signing an order for twenty-five cases of whisky - 300 bottles - for his 1907-09 British Antarctic Expedition? Shackleton's Whisky follows the story of the Rare Old Highland Whisky taken south on his Nimrod expedition. It celebrates the extraordinary achievements of men exploring Antarctica. It dips into the human-interest stories of polar life in the 'heroic era' of Antarctic exploration. Shackleton once wrote of his interest in documenting 'the little incidents that go to make up the sum of the day's work, the humour and the weariness, the inside view of men on an expedition'. Here is one such account, based largely on what he wrote and said about the expedition.
With the recovery 100 years later of three cases of Scotch from icy entombment under the hut at Cape Royds and the subsequent return of three bottles to Scotland for sampling, analysis and a near-magical replication, the relationship of whisky and Antarctic exploration came sharply into focus, making a unique odyssey to the end of the Earth and back.

Unsere Empfehlung: Ein wirkliches Leseabenteuer! Unbedingt kaufen!  Und sehr schade, dass es keine deutsche Übersetzung gibt.

MACKINLAY (jetzt Whyte&Mackay) hat Shackletons Whisky in einem sehr aufwändigen Prozess im Jahre 2011 nachempfunden und einen Scotch kreiert, der angenehm mild ist und aus schottischen Highland Malts komponiert wird. Falls man Glück hat, kann man auch noch irgendwo eine Flasche der beiden Abfüllungen ergattern, die den Originalflaschen nachempfunden sind (siehe Bilder unten).