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069 - Bourbon History through The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an American Whiskey with Fred Minnick, Author

Bourbon Pursuit

Bourbon Pursuit

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4.9866 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Fred Minnick, acclaimed bourbon author who also happens to have the Amazon #1 Best Selling book in the Whiskey Category Bourbon: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an American Whiskey, shares his history before bourbon, dive into chapters of bourbon history, and get his opinion on barrel finishes if it’s still a bourbon and age statement removals Show Notes: Acclaimed bourbon author and media pundit on all things bourbon who is always dressed to the 9s and who also happens to have the Amazon #1 Best Selling book in the Whiskey Category Bourbon: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an American Whiskey Now lets talk about life before bourbon. What were you doing before then? What was the turning point that got you into bourbon or just whiskey in general? Let’s talk about your latest book Bourbon: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an American Whiskey and I want to read everyone the first line from it so they have an idea what they are in for. “Bourbon is more American than Apple Pie, existed before baseball, and has built more roads, schools, and government infrastructure than any other non-petroleum domestic product” and you finish off the thought with “Bourbon is good for America. And it’s time we understand the historic intricacies that make it so unique” Talk about the inspiration behind writing this piece. I want to learn a bit about some of the individual chapters without giving too much away. So i’ll give you the title for a few of them and give the listeners an idea of what they can expect when they read What did you learn through the process of writing? Last week there was a pretty interesting discussion happening online and everyone has to weigh their own opinion. It was an argument that a bourbon finished in a different barrel can no longer be considered a bourbon and should have it’s own category defining itself. What’s your thoughts on finished bourbon in regards to the technicality of their category? You can find all of Fred’s books including Bourbon Curious, Whiskey Women and more on Amazon and links on his website fredminnick.com

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0:00.0

Yeah, somebody just said,

0:01.9

Victor's 20 is out.

0:04.1

Mictor's 20?

0:05.0

Mm-hmm.

0:05.6

I thought they weren't coming out with it this year.

0:07.8

Yeah.

0:08.4

Or no, that was the toasted.

0:09.8

I was like, we interviewed them,

0:11.6

and they said they're coming out

0:12.5

with another Mictor's 20.

0:15.1

See how much attention you pay, right?

0:16.9

I don't.

0:18.8

I'm not like, Fred.

0:19.6

He's like, you're a whiskey pig?

0:21.3

Yep.

0:22.2

Talk to you.

0:25.6

We hung up for like three hours, man.

0:28.5

I carried you back to your room.

0:42.7

This week's release was a bit delayed. I was traveling again from work, but this time to Hawaii, so I'm still recovering a bit from island time.

0:54.6

This episode with Fred Minnick has a lot of great gyms, and we cover a lot of different bases. I have to say that I love friends' opinionated demeanor because he doesn't have an alliance for particular brand, so he can be very truthful about almost anything.

0:56.2

You're going to enjoy this episode.

0:58.7

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