A Field Guide to Whisky

Name: A Field Guide to Whisky
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781579657512
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An Expert Compendium to Take Your Passion and Knowledge to the Next Level

By Hans Offringa

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A Field Guide to Whisky is a comprehensive resource for whisky enthusiasts, covering everything from basic ingredients and production methods to global trends and notable brands. The book features 324 concise entries, rich with industry insights, trivia, maps, and lists of distilleries, whisky trails, bars, hotels, and festivals. Enhanced by 230 colour photographs, it serves as an essential guide to understanding and enjoying this popular spirit.
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This book is ideal for whisky lovers, food and drink aficionados, and anyone wishing to deepen their knowledge of whisky with expert insight presented in an accessible format.

A Field Guide to Whisky is a one-stop guide for all the information a whisky enthusiast needs. With the whisky market booming all over the world, now is a perfect time for a comprehensive guide to this popular brown spirit. What are the basic ingredients in all whiskies? How does it get its flavour?

A comprehensive, definitive resource of whisky knowledge broken down into 323 short but packed entries and wrapped up in an attractive package.

Description

A Field Guide to Whisky is a one-stop guide for all the information a whisky enthusiast needs. With the whisky market booming all over the world, now is a perfect time for a comprehensive guide to this popular brown spirit.

What are the basic ingredients in all whiskies? How does it get its flavour? Which big-name brands truly deserve their reputation? What are the current whisky trends around the world? And who was Jack Daniel, anyway?

This abundance of information is distilled(!) into 324 short entries covering basic whisky literacy, production methods, consumption tips, trends, trivia, geographical maps, and lists of distilleries, whisky trails, bars, hotels, and festivals by an industry insider.

Boasting 230 colour photographs and a beautiful package to boot, A Field Guide to Whisky will make a whisky expert out of anyone.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781579657512

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 May 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Artisan Books

Illustration: 230 color photographs

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 32.0mm

Width: 158.0mm

Height: 206.0mm

Weight: 740g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

Hans Offringa is an author and an internationally renowned whisky expert. He holds many esteemed titles in the whisky world: Patron of the Whisky Festival Northern Netherlands, Honorary Scotsman, Honorary Member of the Caledonian Society of Charleston (SC), Keeper of the Quaich, and Kentucky Colonel. He is also the contributing editor for Europe for Whisky Magazine, and one of the lecturers at the International Whisky School in Groningen, Netherlands. Offringa and his wife, Becky Lovett Offringa, are known as the Whisky Couple, and have been judges at the Dutch Whisky Awards since its inception.