John R. Hume and Michael S. Moss, The Making of Scotch Whisky: A History of the Scotch Whisky Distilling Industry

This book was first published in 1980, and has been updated and republished a couple times since.

Put bluntly, this is the most authoritative text on Scotch whisky we have sever seen. It is not a quick or light read; it is 368 total pages — 229 pages of smallish text, 110 pages of notes and tables, and the rest is the index. Serious students of whisky should have this book in their libraries. (Rating ****1/2)

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