Think of Kentucky and there are several images which readily come to mind...Wildcat Basketball, blissful fields of bluegrass, crowds cheering thoroughbred horses at Churchill Downs, and yes, Bourbon. There is a sobering reality in that bourbon has made the greatest impact among those industries which best symbolize Kentucky. But why exactly is Kentucky bourbon so distinguished from the likes of Tennessee or Canadian Whiskey? Is it the limestone-filtered water or the climate in which the corn and grains are grown? Can it be attributed to some sort of secret family recipe? Essentially, it is all these things combined with a certain work ethic and pride in performance which exists within most Kentuckians. It's like something an old timer once said about people from this state...he said, "We always aim to please." This most interesting material on the makers and the methods of an international institution has something for everyone. No matter if your preferences are with Maker's Mark or Wild Turkey...Jim Beam, Evan Williams or some other of the countless varieties made for sipping, dipping, cooking or curing, this book contains the most comprehensive listing of those companies known as world leaders in the bourbon industry.

Author: Sam K. Cecil
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Turner
Published: 08/01/2001
Pages: 200
Weight: 2.41lbs
Size: 10.94h x 9.22w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781563114861

About the Author
Cecil, Sam K.: - SAM K. CECIL was born in Nelson County, Kentucky on 26th October, 1918. He started his career in the whiskey business in 1937 as a laboratory technician at T.W. Samuels Distillery, Deatsville, KY, but that career was interrupted when he was ordered on active duty with the 38th Division in January, 1941. After his five year tour of duty in WWII, mostly spent in the Pacific Theater, he returned and immediately set up a laboratory for Heaven Hill Distillery, where he spent seven years. He next joined J.W. Dant Distillery at Gethsemane when it was owned by Armand Hammer.
When Schenley bought the plant in March, 1953, he set up a laboratory and established their Quality Control program. In 1954, he joined Bill Samuels at the old Samuels Distillers, later Maker's Mark, at Loretto, KY. He retired from there in 1980 as Vice President of Production and Plant Manager. Since then he has spent a great portion of his time traveling with his wife all over the United States and Canada, plus about sixty countries around the world, as well as considerable island hopping and visiting foreign distilleries. The remainder of his time was spent writing The Evolution of the Bourbon Whiskey Industry in Kentucky.