Many people compare the current craft spirits boom to the craft beer boom of a generation ago. There are many similarities but also differences. One is money. Back in the day, most craft brewers were doing it on a shoestring. Not so today's craft distillers. Many, though not all, are very well funded, often by investors who stay in the background.
In the new issue of The Bourbon Country Reader, Volume 16, Number 5, dated April, 2015, we follow the money to see how it allows micros to poach distilling talent from the majors, and can lead to micro-producer sales to the majors.
We also look at the growing hobby of vatting, in which enthusiasts 'make' new whiskeys by combining two or more commercially-available products.
And we review a few of the excellent, super-premium whiskeys that are still readily available in most places, despite the oft-reported 'bourbon shortage.'
All this is in the new issue of The Bourbon Country Reader, America's oldest publication dedicated exclusively to American whiskey. Honoring tradition, it still comes to you on paper, in an envelope, via the USPS.
A subscription to The Bourbon Country Reader is still just $20 per year (six issues) for addresses in the USA, $25 for everyone else. The Bourbon Country Reader is always independent and idiosyncratic and has no distillery affiliation. It is proudly old-fashioned and published six times a year, or thereabouts.
Click here to subscribe with PayPal or any major credit card, or for more information. Click here for a free sample issue (in PDF format). Click here to open or download the free PDF document, "The Bourbon Country Reader Issue Contents in Chronological Order." (It's like an index.) For the record, this new one is our 95th.
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4 comments:
Richnimrod said;
Thanx Chuck. I look forward to the new edition with great anticpation, as with all the ones I've read. This one is quite timely, too. ...Coming just a couple weex or so before the Spring Sampler weekend down in Bardstown. It'll give us all something to discuss around the campfire, as it were.
I FINALLY got a subscription to this. Will I get the April issue in the mail or will my subscription begin with the next issue? I really want that April one.
New subscriptions always start with the current issue, the April one in this case, unless the subscriber requests something else. We're very agreeable at Reader Tower.
Thats excellent. Thank you. Just finished 'Bourbon, Straight' and am currently reading 'Bourbon, Strange'. Excited to read some more. I'll also be ordering your book on A.H. Hirsch very soon as I was just able to try it in New Orleans. Thanks for providing me with tons of info on the worlds best subject.
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