Description
Product Description
Awards: Finalist, Spirited Awards2015, Men's Journal: Best New Book for Whiskey Lovers Discover a distinct and uniquely American spirit: bourbon!
In Bourbon Curious: A Simple Tasting Guide for the Savvy Drinker, award-winning whiskey writer and Wall Street Journal-best-selling author Fred Minnick debunks bourbon myths, provides distillery production methods (such as recipes and barrel-entry proofs!) and creates an easy-to-read interactive tasting journey that helps you select bourbons based on flavor preferences and bourbon styles. Using the same tasting principles he offers in his Kentucky Derby Museum classes and as a judge at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, Minnick's Bourbon Curious cuts to the chase, dismissing brand marketing and judging what's inside the bottle.
Review
"Bourbon Curious: A Simple Tasting Guide for the Savvy Drinker, serves as a primer on how to determine which brand of bourbon is right for you. (Minnick separates bourbon into four primary flavor groups: grain, nutmeg, caramel, and cinnamon.) Pulling from his extensive experience and credentials -- he serves as a judge on the San Francisco World Spirits Competition and the World Whiskies Awards and has been deemed the "Bourbon Authority" for the Kentucky Derby Museum -- Minnick has created a tasting road map that is accessible and easily navigable. His talk tonight is appropriately paired with a guided bourbon tasting." -- Village Voice
"What I like most about the book is how he lays out his bourbon tasting into four groups: Grain-Forward, Nutmeg-Forward, Caramel-Forward and Cinnamon-Forward bourbons." -- Bourbonr.com
"Follow this field guide from Fred Minnick." -- Men's Health
About the Author
Wall Street Journal-bestselling author Fred Minnick wrote the award-winning Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch & Irish Whiskey. Minnick writes about whiskey for Covey Rise, Parade.com, Scientific American, Whisky Advocate and Whisky Magazine. He is the "Bourbon Authority" for the Kentucky Derby Museum and regularly appears on mainstream media, including CBS This Morning, Esquire, Forbes and NPR.