Book Review: Kentucky Bourbon Country

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Book Review: Kentucky Bourbon Country

Unread postby bourbonv » Sun Sep 22, 2013 2:46 pm

Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Guide, Reigler, Susan, Photographs by Pam Spaulding. Lexington, Ky.:University Press of Kentucky, 2013. Contents, Introduction, Index, Photographs, Glossary. 222pp.

This book is a travel guide to the distilleries in Kentucky, but is also much more. It is everything a person wishing to visit Kentucky to explore Bourbon needs to know. The book is very well organized with the regions of distilling getting their own chapter. The book tells not only of the distilleries in the region, but also other attractions that might be of interest and place to stay and eat while doing the exploration of the region. The color photography is well done and compliments the text very well. The real stars of the show are the distillery. Reigler does an excellent job describing the distilleries and their tour offerings. Offerings is correct since most distilleries offer more than one standard tour. These additional tours often require reservations in advance and may include a fee, but the book does a good job telling the reader the requirements and even includes telephone numbers and websites where arrangements can be made.

The book is well organized and attractive. It is full of useful information about the distilleries, distillation and aging of bourbon and even some history. If it has one fault, it is the fault that all books of this type possess: time does not stand still and information changes. Distilleries can change tour times or even the tours themselves. Restaurant recommended can change ownership or close. These problems can not be helped, but Reigler has done an excellent job gathering information that is accurate for now and hopefully for several years to come. The book is indeed an "essential guide" for those traveling in Bourbon Country. A great addition to the Bourbon library,
Mike Veach
"Our people live almost exclusively on whiskey" - E H Taylor, Jr. 25 April 1873
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