TWO SIDES OF THE WHISKEY COIN
This issue’s Whiskey Shelf showcases two recent books that represent the historic and the innovative in American whiskey. Kentucky has long dominated Bourbon production, so much so that Kentucky Bourbon is a redundancy in many whiskey drinkers’ minds. Clay Risen’s book documents all things Kentucky Bourbon.
The flip side of this whiskey coin is the rise in the 21st century of craft distilling, producers mainly outside of Kentucky who are making relatively small volumes of their product and often appealing to and selling only to whiskey enthusiasts in their region. That’s the subject of John McCarthy’s
