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Carla Harris Carlton. Barrel Strength Bourbon
DEDICATION
Write drunk; edit sober.*
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. Straight Talk: A Shot of Bourbon History
The Birth of Bourbon
HOW DID BOURBON GET ITS NAME?
“Wall Street for Whiskey”
From Famine to Feast to Famine
“A DISTINCTIVE PRODUCT OF THE UNITED STATES”
Big Names in Bourbon
2. Making Its Mark: The Rise of Premium Bourbon
A LIMITED EDITION OF ONE: SINGLE-BARREL SELECTIONS
FOUR ROSES RISES AGAIN
THE THRILL OF THE HUNT
3. From Mash to Masterpiece: How Bourbon Is Made
Grain
Water
Fermentation
Distillation
The Column Still
The Pot Still
Maturation
Warehouses
BUFFALO TRACE’S WAREHOUSE X
Bottling
ROLL OUT THE BARREL
Put a Cork in It
4. Make Mine a Double: The Big Business of Bourbon
THE DISTILLED SPIRITS EPICENTER
A NOSE FOR BOURBON
Pouring Money into Mash
5. The Proof Is in the Pilgrimage: Bourbon Tourism
The Kentucky Bourbon Trail
The Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour
6 “The Kentucky Chew”: How to Taste Bourbon
MOST BOURBON IS GOOD. WHAT MAKES A BOURBON GREAT?
7. Double-Barreled: Betting on Bourbon’s Future
APPENDIX A. From Alligator Char to White Dog: A Glossary of Bourbon Terms
APPENDIX B. Classic Cocktails: Recipes and Stories of the Old-Fashioned, the Manhattan, the Seelbach Cocktail, and the Mint Julep
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Barrels of bourbon age in a rickhouse at Heaven Hill in Bardstown, Kentucky. (Photo courtesy of Heaven Hill)
Introduction
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By the turn of the 20th century, there were nearly 100 whiskey-related concerns operating on and near Whiskey Row in Louisville, according to the Louisville City Directory, and not just from Kentucky; they also hailed from places like Cincinnati, Chicago, and New York. “This was the greatest accumulation of whiskey companies in the world in one place at one time,” Chris Morris says. “It was like Wall Street for whiskey.”
Unfortunately for both Wall Streets, big crashes were coming.
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