Boozehound: on the trail of the rare, the obscure and the overrated in spirits

✍ Scribed by Jason Wilson

• Publisher: Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony;Ten Speed Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 158 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1299168256

✦ Synopsis

While some may wonder, "Does the world really need another flavored vodka?" no one answers this question quite so memorably as spirits writer and raconteur Jason Wilson does in Boozehound. (By the way, the short answer is no.) A unique blend of travelogue, spirits history, and recipe collection, Boozehound explores the origins of what we drink and the often surprising reasons behind our choices.

In lieu of odorless, colorless, tasteless spirits, Wilson champions Old World liquors with hard-to-define flavors--a bitter and complex Italian amari , or the ancient, aromatic herbs of Chartreuse, as well as distinctive New World offerings like lively Peruvian pisco. With an eye for adventure, Wilson seeks out visceral experiences at the source of production--visiting fields of spiky agave in Jalisco, entering the heavily and reverently-guarded Jagermeister herb room in Wolfenbuttel, and journeying to the French Alps to determine if...