Bourbon: The Evolution of Kentucky Whiskey

Think of Kentucky and several images come quickly to mind: horse racing, coal, bluegrass, and yes, bourbon. Number one in the nation in the production of bourbon, Kentucky distilleries came to be distinguished for their secret family recipes, limestone-filtered water, and generations of family expertise reaching all the way back to the 1700s. In Bourbon: The Evolution of Kentucky Whiskey, industry veteran and native Kentuckian Sam K. Cecil catalogs a wealth of the lore and the lineages surrounding bourbon, along with an authoritative listing of distilleries in operation from the nineteenth century forward. Whether you are an industry insider seeking facts and figures or you are simply curious about bourbon while sipping, dipping, cooking, or curing, this book distills all the mash into an absorbing look at the history of Kentucky bourbon.