Media coverage of whisky and distilling of all sorts is at an all-time high. The number of resources available to curious imbibers are unlimited and continually expanding. Print options range from books to magazines to newspaper features. Brand Ambassadors are found at the corner of nearly every bar. Electronic outlets are beyond overflowing with websites, blogs, podcasts, video channels, corporate materials and pages, posts and tweets from every corner of the social media universe. There seems to be no end. But it wasn't always this way. As the whisky industry began to 'mature' from the Excise Act of 1823, information began to slowly trickle out. This book is a look at what was available to the whisky enthusiast in the following period of growth in the UK, the Victorian Age. Stories, articles and chapter-ized material sourced from engineering and technical journals, newspapers and period magazines, in-depth and expansive descriptions of the whisky-making process lead into distillery visits that both pre-and post-date Alfred Barnard's legendary tour. John's Lane (Powers), Royal Irish, Ardlussa, Jura, Jones Road, Ben Nevis, Oban and London's Thames Bank Distillery (from 1842) are all documented here in tones ranging from purely technical to downright jovial. Barnard's rare work "A Tourist's Visit to Argyllshire and West Highlands" is examined twice. Local whisky thievery and distillery expansions in the 1890's are further detailed alongside publicly reported newspaper articles on whisky's greatest scandal and trial, the Pattison Whisky Crash.

Whisky Words: Whisky and Distilling in the United Kingdom Through the Victorian Age

History

Barker, Aaron

Europe

Aaron Barker Publishing

First gaining fame for 1887’s ambitious “The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom,” Alfred Barnard would follow up with “Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland,”—an equally grand tour presented in four volumes from 1889 thru 1891. From that point shorter works on Scotland’s great whisky blending houses would be his focus and 1891’s “A Visit to Watson’s Dundee Whisky Stores” would be the first of these and perhaps the most important. Touring James Watson &amp; Co. in Dundee, Barnard paints a vivid and complete picture of one of Scotland’s largest whisky blenders before moving on to visit the Cragganmore Distillery. Spending two days at Watson’s, Barnard details every bit of their operations including their warehouses, blending halls, excise office, bottling, packaging, case making departments, the cooperage and main offices. The work would stand well on its own if this were the end of the story; but that would not be the case. Fifteen years after Barnard’s visit, Watson’s Dundee facilities would be utterly destroyed in the ‘Great Whisky Fire’ of 1906. With that event, his little-known edition would become the sole remaining record of what Watson’s Bond was once like. This edition begins with Barnard’s text as sourced from one of the last known copies and also includes a detailed history of the book, a look at the whisky fires in Dublin (1875) and Greenock (1903) leading up to the Dundee conflagration as well as information on Watson’s rebuild and a neighboring blending house also affected by the fire, John Robertson &amp; Son.

A Visit to Watson's Dundee Whisky Stores

Barnard, Alfred

This tender gift book, a celebration of a father's unconditional love for hischild, is a perfect Father's Day gift. When a son comes home from school afterfighting, afraid of punishment, he finds that his father's love "is a lovewithout end." When the son grows up and has his own child who tests hispatience, he passes on the secret that a father's love is without end. Finally,dreaming he has died and is about to enter heaven, he thinks there must be somemistake: "If they know half the things I've done they'll never let mein," he thinks, only to hear that "daddies don't just love theirchildren every now and then."
So, let me tell you a secret,
The one my father told,
The story of a father's love,
A long, long time ago,
A love so great He gave His Son,
That we might live again.
The secret of a father's love is...
It's a love without end... Amen.

Love Without End, Amen

Humor & Entertainment

Rutledge Hill Pr

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