Buffalo, Barrels, and Bourbon

Auteur

F. PAUL PACULT has been hailed in Imbibe magazine as "an all-knowing spirituous oracle, a J.D. Powers of liquor" and by Forbes.com as "America's foremost spirits authority." He is an award-winning educator and journalist, as well as the author of seven books, including American Still Life, A Double Scotch, and The New Kindred Spirits. For twenty-eight years, he was the editor of the widely acknowledged "bible" of spirits reviews, F. Paul Pacult's Spirit Journal. He is a Life Member of both the Bourbon Hall of Fame and the Kentucky Distillers Association's Order of the Writ.

Contenu

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Glossary xv

1 "This River Runes North West and out of Ye Westerly Side . . ." 1
Sidebar: The Unforgivable Extermination of Tatanka 12

2 "This Map of Kentucke: Drawn from Actual Observations . . ." 15

3 ". . . As Crooked as a Dog's Hind Leg . . ." 29

4 ". . . 10,530 bls. Flour; 1374 Whiskey; 1984 Beef and Pork . . ." 35
Sidebar: The Kentucky River's Natural Wonders 41

5 ". . . The Machinery Is of the Best . . . for Making Copper Distilled Whisky." 43
Sidebar: Kentucky Whiskey Production: Grain 49

6 ". . . Bourbon Production . . . Was at Best Crude and Unreliable . . ." 51

7 ". . . That in Consideration of Five Hundred Dollars . . ." 61

8 "Rev. Dr. McLeod Thanks God for Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey" 69

9 "The Most Valuable Assistance That We Got in St. Louis . . ." 75

10 ". . . An Early Nineteenth Century Residence Situated in the Middle of an Expansive Lawn . . ." 83

11 ". . . Raised the Daily Production from 400 to 600 Barrels . . ." 95

12 "Despite Many Salacious Rumors, He Is Mostly Remembered As . . ." 103

13 "Show Up Next Monday Morning . . ." 115
Sidebar: The Indelible Impact of American Whiskey's Greatest Generation 127

14 Sazerac: The New Orleans Company and the Fabled Cocktail 131
Sidebar: The Sazerac Cocktail and Resurrection of Sazerac House 140

15 "Experimentation Is in Our DNA . . ." 143

16 "Resistance Is Futile" 153
Sidebar: Freddie Johnson's Promise 167

17 ". . . Projecting Forecasts in 2020 for the Next 100, 120 Years . . ." 169

Appendix 181

Timeline 185

Notes 189

Bibliography 199

About the Author 203

Index 205