Whiskey Women

Wall Street Journal best-selling author FRED MINNICK, once an army journalist in Iraq, writes the award-winning “American Whiskey” column for TASTING PANEL Magazine and “Toasting the Hunt” column for Covey Rise. A regular contributor to Caviar Affair, Costco Connection, Whisky Magazine, and Whisky Advocate, Minnick has widely written about the spirits industry, traveling around the world covering everything from Limoncello in Sorrento, Italy, to Malbec wine in Mendoza, Argentina. Minnick is a member of the Author’s Guild and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Meridith May, publisher of TASTING PANEL, calls Minnick “one of the best whiskey storytellers in the business.”

"Forget umbrellas in cocktails: Kentucky journalist Fred Minnick shows us how the fairer sex established liquor techniques, culture, and tastes as we know it today."-Damon Brown, Esquire “[Whiskey Women] is an important examination of liquor history and offers a number of profiles of trailblazers. Inspiring.”-Lew Bryson, the Daily Beast"This enjoyable book leaves readers feeling a way they’re likely not accustomed to after such a wild, whiskey soaked ride: enlightened."-Jen A. Miller, American Way "Deeply researched and takes an interesting angle (the role of women) as a way to talk about whiskey from a fresh perspective."—Kara Newman, Tipple Sheet"This is a great book. Whether you are into whiskey, history or both this deserves a place on your book shelf."—Eric Burke, Bourbon Guy.com "[Whiskey Women is] an enjoyable read of thoughtfully-assembled facts and stories illuminating the forgotten women of apothecaries and distilleries past."—Virginia Miller, Liquor.com "Fred Minnick gives us an entertaining look at booze's little-known history—including its links to childhood medicine, witchcraft, and the eighteenth-century mail order bride business. This book goes down smooth."—A. J. Jacobs, New York Times best-selling author of The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible"Whether you're a hop-head or a spirit imbiber, Whiskey Women is an entertaining and unexpected look at the role of women in the spirits industry."-Lindsey Kate Reynolds, Southern Foodways Alliance "The known history of whiskey changes with Whiskey Women. Fred Minnick has dug deep and come up with gold on the tremendous contribution women have made at each step in the history and evolution of this much-storied beverage. Whiskey Women is a real game changer."—Davin de Kergommeaux, award-winning author of Canadian Whisky: The Portable Expert"A book that's well worth buying."-Reid Mitenbuler, Drinks

• A Note to ReadersIntroduction1. Before Whiskey2. The First Distillations3. Tough Irish Women4. Early Scotch Whisky Women5. Early American Women6. The Targeted and Early Marketers7. Temperance Women8. Women Moonshiners and Bootleggers in Prohibition9. Repeal Women Saving Whiskey10. The Post-Prohibition Legal Battles11. Post-Prohibition Women Bootleggers12. Whiskey's Progressive Side13. The Lady of Laphroaig14. Modern Women15. Organizing the Whiskey Effort16. For Women, by WomenAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex