\r\n \r\n\r\nBourbon Curious
\r\nFred Minnick
\r\nISBN 9780760347409
\r\nBookclub offer: £10.50 plus P&P
\r\n(RRP: 14.99)\r\n\r\nIn Bourbon Curious, award winning writer Fred Minnick creates an easy-to-read, interactive tasting journey to help you choose the right Bourbons for your flavour preferences – and take the next step in expanding your palate. The book groups Bourbon into four main flavour profiles – grain, nutmeg, caramel and cinnamon. While many Bourbons boast all four flavour notes, one delicious sensation typically overpowers the rest. This books uncovers more than 50 brands’ dominant tastes and suggests cocktail recipes to complement them. In addition, the author spends some time busting Bourbon myths, unravelling its mysteries, exploring distiller secrets and disclosing the recipes you won’t find on a bottle’s label. Bourbon is becoming more ingrained in the culinary world with foodies and drink enthusiasts alike looking for a basic understanding of America’s favourite spirit. Job well done.
\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Bourbon Tasting Notebook
\r\nSusan Reigler & Michael Veach
\r\nISBN 9781942613039
\r\nBookclub offer: £10.50 plus P&P
\r\n(RRP: 14.99)\r\n\r\nThis is an essential logbook for any Bourbon enthusiast. With a record amount of Bourbon whiskey ageing in warehouses and visits to Kentucky’s Bourbon distilleries topping 500,000 annually, it is obvious that Bourbon is enjoying unprecedented popularity. This logbook will give the Bourbon lover the perfect way to track their samplings, with over 200 featured brands. The authors sampled every brand featured, documenting the flavours, tastes and smells they experienced, along with the proof, age, type, style, mash bill, colour, price, nose, taste, and finish for each Bourbon and full colour photos of each bottle for easy reference. They did not assign ratings, letting readers make their own decisions. The Bourbons are indexed by proof and style, along with a checklist so each person can keep track of what has been sampled and record his or her preferences.
\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Knowledge: Whisky
\r\nDave Waddell
\r\nISBN: 9781849496254
\r\nBookclub offer: £7.00 plus P&P
\r\n(RRP: £10.00)\r\n\r\nThis guide delivers a working knowledge of whisky in all its aspects. Outlining the history of drink, it shines a light on the best examples in each category, as well as revealing how to get the most from every nip. The book details from whisky’s complex distilling techniques to breaking down the the key differences between the styles.
\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Malt Whisky Yearbook 2016
\r\nEdited by Ingvar Ronde
\r\nISBN 9780957655324
\r\nBookclub offer: £9.50 plus P&P
\r\n(RRP: £13.95)\r\n\r\nWhisky enthusiasts all over the world really do look forward to receiving this annual publication. It is written by people who really know about whisky, it’s fully revised every year and has become the best guide of its type on the market. An essential read for any whisky lover.
\r\n \r\n\r\nLet Me Tell You About Whisky
\r\nNeil Ridley & Gavin D Smith
\r\nISBN 9781862059658
\r\nBookclub offer: £13.00 plus P&P
\r\n(RRP: £16.99)\r\n\r\nWritten by two well known whisky writers, this book is probably the best primer out there. There have been many primer books about whisky in recent years, but not one with such detailed and all encompassing scope. The book assumes that the reader has no prior whisky knowledge and explains fully the whisky process.\r\n