Macleans Miscellany Of Whisky PDF Download

For centuries, whisky has tickled the palettes of the famous and the infamous alike, the good as well as the downright sinful. Here, Charles MacLean pours a lifetime of passion and knowledge of Scotch whisky into an extraordinary array of myths, facts and figures about what he describes as 'the world's finest spirit, and Scotland's most generous gift to the world'. How has whisky changed over the past hundred years - and why? What gives it its beautiful amber colour? How do its simple ingredients - water, barley, yeast and perhaps a whiff of peat - come together to produce such a diversity of flavours? What changes have taken place in distilling, bottling and marketing the 'Water of Life'? Why have some distilleries closed, while others have flourished? How should Scotch best be enjoyed? Are there really three degrees of drunkenness? Wide-ranging in its scope, yet served up in easily digestible portions, liberally spiced with quirky and unusual stories and quotations, MacLean's Miscellany mines seams that have been previously ignored, and opens long-closed galleries. This is a book that should be consumed unrushed, in appreciative sips. Book jacket.