Spirits Explained

by Mark Ridgwell

Spirits Explained will increase your knowledge of whisk(e)y, rum, gin, tequila, brandy, liqueurs, vodka and more. With their histories, some stretching back generations if not centuries and information on how and where each is made and why they taste the way they do, Spirits Explained aims to equip brand champions to become product authorities, bartenders to become informed entertainers and keen amateurs to become discerning consumers., encouraging all to enjoy their spirits less as brand statements and more as informed choices. The book will answer nagging questions and resolve arguments but, most of all, it will encourage spirits to be enjoyed, like wines, as products of nature all the more rewarding for the effort made to get to know them better.
The book aims to help those for whom spirits may well be a regular choice but remain ignorant or ill-informed about their origins and why they taste the way they do and those, for whom spirits may remain only an occasional choice, still cloaked in mystery but who would welcome the knowledge to transform any particular spirit into a regular and rewarding choice.

199 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 13, 2012