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Dead Distillers: The Kings County Distillery History of the Entrepreneurs and Outlaws Who Made American Spirits
Colin Spoelman
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Description for Dead Distillers: The Kings County Distillery History of the Entrepreneurs and Outlaws Who Made American Spirits
Hardback. Exhuming the stories of the notable and not-so-famous figures who distilled the American spirit, the founders of Kings County Distillery now offer a rich history of whiskey, moonshine and other spirits. Num Pages: 224 pages, 70 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; TDCT1; WBXD3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 570.
Founders and award-winning distillers of Kings County Distillery Colin Spoelman and David Haskell follow up their successful Guide to Urban Moonshining with an extensive history of the figures who distilled American spirits. The book presents 50 fascinating-and sometimes morbid-biographies from this historic trade's bygone days, including farmers, scientists, oligarchs, criminals, and the occasional US president. Readers may be surprised to find the names George Washington, Henry Frick, or Andrew Mellon alongside the usual suspects long associated with booze-Jasper Jack Daniel, Jim Beam, and Julian Pappy Van Winkle. From the Whiskey Rebellion to Prohibition to the recent ... Read more
Founders and award-winning distillers of Kings County Distillery Colin Spoelman and David Haskell follow up their successful Guide to Urban Moonshining with an extensive history of the figures who distilled American spirits. The book presents 50 fascinating-and sometimes morbid-biographies from this historic trade's bygone days, including farmers, scientists, oligarchs, criminals, and the occasional US president. Readers may be surprised to find the names George Washington, Henry Frick, or Andrew Mellon alongside the usual suspects long associated with booze-Jasper Jack Daniel, Jim Beam, and Julian Pappy Van Winkle. From the Whiskey Rebellion to Prohibition to the recent ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Abrams
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781419720215
SKU
V9781419720215
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Colin Spoelman
Colin Spoelman, a former rooftop moonshiner from Kentucky, and David Haskell, the great-grandson of a prohibition-era bootlegger from New York, founded Brooklyn's Kings County Distillery in 2010 to make small-scale batches of moonshine, bourbon and other whiskeys. Spoelman is a full-time distiller and writer; Haskell is deputy editor at New York magazine
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