Book Reviews Warehouse H Book Review This book isn't just for Blanton's fans; it's a love letter to Bourbon's history. Guglielmi's a self-proclaimed "super fan" – think David Jennings and his Wild Turkey obsession, but with a Blanton's twist. He wears the "tater" badge with honor, and frankly, his dedication is contagious.
Book Reviews American Rye: A Guide to the Nation’s Original Spirit Book Review American Rye: A Guide to the Nation’s Original Spirit could be a great stocking stuffer for the cocktail enthusiast or burgeoning whiskey devotee who is unfamiliar with the category and interested to gain a solid foothold.
Book Reviews Buffalo, Barrels & Bourbon Book Review Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon by F. Paul Pacult is a study of how the bourbon gods giveth and taketh away.
Book Reviews Pappyland Book Review “Maybe whiskey is so fragile because once the cap comes off, the past rushes out of the bottle and is gone forever,” Wright Thompson explains in one of his incredible passages that captures what makes bourbon so transcendent.
Book Reviews Bourbon: What the Educated Drinker Should Know Book Review When I first agreed to review Bourbon: What the Educated Drinker Should Know, for Bourbon and Banter, I was skeptical. The book description said in part, that it is written “… in a style both beginners and aficionados will appreciate.”
Book Reviews The Whiskey Rebellion Book Review William Hogeland’s ‘The Whiskey Rebellion’ was published in 2006, well before the Bourbon Boom, and well before Lin Manuel Miranda had children rapping about Alexander Hamilton as a hero. Brilliant though Hamilton was, he was tone-deaf and out of touch with the people.
Book Reviews Bourbon & Bullets Book Review I am comfortable admitting that I likely wouldn’t have read Bourbon & Bullets: True Stores of Whiskey, War and Military Service if John Tramazzo hadn’t sent me a copy of it.
Book Reviews Bourbon Justice Book Review It’s also a dusty hunter’s dream. I finally learned the origins of some pre-prohibition whiskeys I’ve tried, including Old Jordan (found in a 3-gallon glass carboy in a pharmacist’s office!), as well as a bottle from The American Medicinal Spirits Corporation.
Book Reviews Booze and Vinyl Book Review Ok, so a little tease using our bourbon review format but what is this book all about? It’s a fun way to approach pairing cocktails and music. It takes things a little over the top but if you are going to throw a listening party I think this offers a nice blueprint to follow.
Book Reviews Deep Tasting Chocolate & Whiskey Book Review It is clear from the first few pages, that R. M. Peluso knows her chocolate. An accomplished chocolate reviewer (yes, you read that correctly – what a spectacular hobby), Peluso embarks upon a nearly spiritual journey through how to properly taste chocolate.
Book Reviews Straight Bourbon Book Review It was apparent when picking this book up that it was constructed and published using great thought, care, and quality materials. The thickness of the individual pages make for a hefty book, which coincidentally is not far off from a freshly sealed bottle of bourbon.
Book Reviews Barrel Strength Bourbon Book Review Like Bourbon itself, new books on the topic continue to be released all the time. Some people try and read everything they can (guilty), some people want just an overview, and some people just want a book for their coffee table or bar.
Book Reviews Rum Curious Book Review The whiskey bubble, in addition to fostering alternative universes of stupidity, has also inspired significantly more people to sharply focus on whiskey’s history and craftsmanship.
Book Reviews The Big Man of Jim Beam: Booker Noe and the Number One Bourbon In the World My deep dive into bourbon began in earnest with Knob Creek and Basil Hayden’s. They were the first premium small batch bourbons released, and their mastermind was Booker Noe.
Book Reviews Amaro: The Spirited World Bittersweet, Herbal Liqueurs with Cocktails, Recipes and Formulas Book Review If you read articles on cocktails and drinking trends, the word “bitter” will inevitably come up. If you get serious about cocktails, you will inevitably go through a “bitter, brown, and stirred” phase. The Italian word for bittersweet is amaro.
Book Reviews The Manhattan: The Story of the First Modern Cocktail Book Review The Manhattan: The Story of the First Modern Cocktail by Philip Greene offers a richly detailed history of the ingredients and the evolution of the cocktail itself.
Book Reviews Bourbon: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an American Whiskey Book Review Fred Minnick truly needs no introduction, but he deserves one anyway. He is a bestselling whiskey author, a judge for the San Francisco World Spirits Competition and World Whiskies Awards, a bourbon ambassador for the Kentucky Derby Museum, a contributor to Whisky Advocate...
Book Reviews Dead Distillers: A History of Upstarts and Distillers Who Made American Spirits Dead Distillers, Colin Spoelman and David Haskell’s follow up to 2013’s The Guide to Urban Moonshining, is a truly unique walk through the history of whiskey- in many cases a walk through actual cemeteries!
Book Reviews 12 Must Have Bourbon Books You upgraded from bourbon & coke, you have Glencairn glasses, and you even started reading this fantastic little blog: now what? It’s time for you to get educated, my friend! Bourbon writing has exploded in the past decade.
Book Reviews The Architecture of the Shot Book Review If you walk into a bar these days, you’ll see machines that can dispense chilled shots of Jaegermeister, Fireball, or whatever the local favorite college hangover inducer is.
Book Reviews The Bourbon Tasting Notebook Review – The Fitness Tracker of Bourbon One of my favorite memories during my time with Bourbon & Banter was when I made the trek over to St. Louis from DC for Mike Veach’s Filson Bourbon Academy.
Book Reviews A Wet Drunk Midwestern Summer (a tale of Tiki Cocktails) We might be at the unofficial end of summer, but we’re still in the thick of it. The wet, hot, hair-glued-to-your-forehead, soggy crotch thick of it. Don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about. It’s a classic Midwestern Summer.
Book Reviews Bourbon Curious Book Review A great new book from Fred Minnick, "Bourbon Curious, A Tasting Guide for the Savy Drinker". I love this book.
Book Reviews The Craft Cocktail Party: A Review & Giveaway Let me preface this review by saying that I am not much of a cocktail drinker: A glass of wine, sure, bourbon on the rocks, great, an occasional manhattan or a hot toddy on a cold winters night (made by my lovely husband), excellent.
