Bourbon Review Journal

The perfect gift for amateurs and seasoned aficionados of whisky--the world's most popular spirit--this book is an essential resource and useful tool for acquiring and enjoying a personal whisky collection. This handsome cellar guide and tasting notebook is a complete resource for the whisky lover. The book opens with an historical introduction to the spirit, followed by best practices for selecting, storing, serving, and enjoying whisky, including which glasses and carafes to use, how to let it breathe, and how to store whisky after it has been opened. Collectors will learn how to choose a whisky based on taste and aromatic composition, regional specificity, or place of origin--including options from emerging producers such as Japan, India, Sweden, and Taiwan. The expansive history and practical guidelines serve as a perfect opener to the 100-page logbook for recording details on a whisky's age, proof, origin, and barrel type, along with personal comments, reviews, and tasting experiences.

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An instant New York Times bestseller From the bestselling author of The Cost of These Dreams The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted cult Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world, fought to protect his family's heritage and preserve the taste of his forebears, in a world where authenticity, like his product, is in very short supply. As a journalist said of Pappy Van Winkle, "You could call it bourbon, or you could call it a $5,000 bottle of liquified, barrel-aged unobtanium." Julian Van Winkle, the third-generation head of his family's business, is now thought of as something like the Buddha of Bourbon - Booze Yoda, as Wright Thompson calls him. He is swarmed wherever he goes, and people stand in long lines to get him to sign their bottles of Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve, the whiskey he created to honor his grandfather, the founder of the family concern. A bottle of the 23-year-old Pappy starts at $3000 on the internet. As Julian is the first to say, things have gone completely nuts. Forty years ago, Julian would have laughed in astonishment if you'd told him what lay ahead. He'd just stepped in to try to save the business after his father had died, partly of heartbreak, having been forced to sell the old distillery in a brutal downturn in the market for whiskey. Julian's grandfather had presided over a magical kingdom of craft and connoisseurship, a genteel outfit whose family ethos generated good will throughout Kentucky and far beyond. There's always a certain amount of romance to the marketing of spirits, but Pappy's mission statement captured something real: "We make fine bourbon - at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always fine bourbon." But now the business had hit the wilderness years, and Julian could only hang on for dear life, stubbornly committed to preserving his namesake's legacy or going down with the ship. Then something like a miracle happened: it turned out that hundreds of very special barrels of whiskey from the Van Winkle family distillery had been saved by the multinational conglomerate that bought it. With no idea what they had, they offered to sell it to Julian, who scrambled to beg and borrow the funds. Now he could bottle a whiskey whose taste captured his family's legacy. The result would immediately be hailed as the greatest whiskey in the world - and would soon be the hardest to find. But now, those old barrels were used up, and Julian Van Winkle faced the challenge of his lifetime: how to preserve the taste of Pappy, the taste of his family's heritage, in a new age? The amazing Wright Thompson was invited to be his wingman as he set about to try. The result is an extraordinary testimony to the challenge of living up to your legacy and the rewards that come from knowing and honoring your people and your craft. Wright learned those lessons from Julian as they applied to the honest work of making a great bourbon whiskey in Kentucky, but he couldn't help applying them to his own craft, writing, and his upbringing in Mississippi, as he and his wife contemplated the birth of their first child. May we all be lucky enough to find some of ourselves, as Wright Thompson did, in Julian Van Winkle, and in Pappyland.

This handsome 140 page journal is designed to guide the whiskey enthusiast through a personal exploration of this multifaceted spirit. As you taste, you'll be able to fill out the logbook pages for the individual liquors being evaluated. Train your palate by following a guide to tasting. This book also makes the perfect gift for men and women who love bourbons, whiskys and ryes.

Go beyond the glass and discover the secrets behind your favorite style of whiskey. Over the past three decades, Lew Bryson has been one of the most influential voices in whiskey—a longtime editor of Whisky Advocate and author of the definitive guide Tasting Whiskey. In this book, Lew shares everything he's learned on his journey through the worlds of bourbon, Scotch, rye, Japanese whiskey, and more (yes, there are tasty Canadian and Irish whiskeys as well!). In this book, you'll find it all: An overview of the different types of whiskeys, including the rules and identities of each. He also includes information on craft whiskeys, which tend to be more creative and freewheeling than the styles made by traditional producers. Exploration of the key whiskey ingredients, with a close look at the flavor contributions of malt, peat, corn, rye, wheat—even water matters. Distillation for non-distillers and the beauty of barrels: Whiskey is both an art and a science, and what's in the glass is affected by things like pot stills vs. column stills, barrel char, and of course, time. Numerous interviews with master distillers, still makers, and other artisans at the top of their field. Tasting notes throughout so you can identify the whiskeys you might want to try next. Every chapter contains a variety of unique, often behind-the-scenes photography. And with whiskey as the subject, this is a class where you'll want to do the homework!

Brian Haara recounts the development of commercial laws that guided the United States from an often reckless laissez-faire mentality, through the growing pains of industrialization, past the overcorrection of Prohibition, and into its final state as a nation of laws.

Bourbon Tasting journal for Bourbon Lovers For those who love Bourbon, keeping track of which products you have trialed or purchased and which you have not can be a nightmare. This journal has been designed specifically to track which Bourbon products you have tried, and allows you to rate and track them according to the most important factors for Bourbon tasting. This book is the perfect gift for Bourbon collectors, looking to keep inventory on their collection and ensure that they continue to buy their favourite products. What does this logbook contain: Cover page with space for owner information and logbook number Space to rate, review and record 100 different Bourbon products 'Quick Recap List' at the start of the journal which acts as a contents page for your reviews and taste tests, ensuring you are able to quickly find what you are looking for Lined notes pages at the back of the book to record other relevant information (Pricing / specials, recipes and cocktails, good food to enjoy with particular products etc) What do the log / review pages contain: Product Name Producer / Distillery Type / Grade Country / Region Alcohol % Age Price Still Type Bottle Size Quality rating (1-10) Value for money rating (1-10) Color Meter Flavour Wheel & Other Flavour Notes Smell / Scent Other notes Book Features: 6 x 9 Inch - Very convenient size 120 Pages Softcover (Paperback) with professional perfect binding Printed on white paper Awesome cover design Numbered pages with recap to make your own contents page Give yourself (or a loved one) the gift of organisation with this Bourbon tasting journal and record book.

The purpose of this ultimate whiskey pub crawl planner is to keep all your various whiskey drinking information, all drinking thoughts organized in one easy to find spot.