![]() ![]() ![]() Mitenbuler has done his research – both historical and apparently copious amounts of tasting. Which isn’t all that conducive to serious reading.īut I learned a lot from this book. It took me a little longer to get through than it should’ve, because after a while of reading about bourbon, I’d find myself thinking, “That sounds good,” and have myself a tipple. It’s seriously well written, well organized, thorough, readable and entertaining. This is his first book, but it doesn’t show. Mitenbuler is a journalist and whiskey expert who has written about whiskey and “drinking culture” for The Atlantic, Slate, and Saveur, and writes a “Drinking in History” column for Serious Eats. Like so many other historical details, the makers of Westerns probably got that one wrong, or so implies Reid Mitenbuler in his lucid book Bourbon Empire. Sorry, but it probably didn’t happen that way. Maybe the cowboy even says “I’ll take the bottle” and heads for a table. ![]() I realize that movie Westerns are no longer the cultural touchstone they were for my generation, but I’m sure many of you have no trouble remembering a movie scene in which a cowboy walks into a saloon, orders a whiskey and the barkeep pours him one from a clear glass quart-size bottle. ![]()
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