A review by foxwriter
A Dark History of Whisky by GARY. DOBBS

adventurous funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

A brilliant education on the history of whiskey, or is it whisky? find out within these pages the strange history of it's name, the long and many years of bootlegging from Ireland and Scotland, to the American prohibition. thousands of years of insanely unfair taxation, the fight to make it, the fight to sell it, and the fight to drink it, and fight they do! from Whisky's effect on pop culture, to the way it tastes, to a band that plays their song to effect the flavor, this book has everything you could ever want to know about the water of life, acqua vitae and how it stamped it's mark on history from buccaneers, to the American revolution and beyond.