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Hacking Whiskey: Smoking, Blending, Fat Washing, and Other Whiskey Experiments
2019 BEST NEW BOOK FINALIST -- Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards
This is not your ordinary whiskey book, it's a collection of ingenious ideas and shortcuts to help you temper your whiskey to greatness in the privacy of your own home. Aaron Goldfarb, a whiskey geek (and writer), is reporting from the field, where he's gathered tips, recipes, and insider secrets about the weird yet delightful ways in which whiskey is being used today. Things like making cheap homemade blends that taste fancy, infusing whiskey with marijuana smoke, adding it to infinity bottles, and doing bone marrow luge shots, to name a few. So get your hands wet (and your house smoky) and take him up on the challenge of upgrading your whiskey (just don't forget to brag about it online).
This is not your ordinary whiskey book, it's a collection of ingenious ideas and shortcuts to help you temper your whiskey to greatness in the privacy of your own home. Aaron Goldfarb, a whiskey geek (and writer), is reporting from the field, where he's gathered tips, recipes, and insider secrets about the weird yet delightful ways in which whiskey is being used today. Things like making cheap homemade blends that taste fancy, infusing whiskey with marijuana smoke, adding it to infinity bottles, and doing bone marrow luge shots, to name a few. So get your hands wet (and your house smoky) and take him up on the challenge of upgrading your whiskey (just don't forget to brag about it online).
- GenresBooze
264 pages, Hardcover
Published September 25, 2018
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About the author
Aaron Goldfarb
14 books51 followersAaron Goldfarb is a journalist and the author of 12 books, his most recent of which was Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirit. He is generally regarded as one of the top drinks writers in the country.
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January 16, 2022
No estoy seguro acerca de qué siento sobre este libro. Tiene un par de cosas interesantes pero muchas que te hacen decir "eeeeeeeeh, no gracias".
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October 23, 2018
Kudos to Mr. Goldfarb for banishing any snobbery while making whiskey approachable and fun to the newcomer and reminding the seasoned whiskey lover that there is more than one way to drink a single malt.
July 5, 2019
Informative and a fun read - Hacking Whiskey taught me a lot about blending, finishing, and other ways to increase my (already considerable) enjoyment of whiskey. Good drink recipes, too. Time to start my own infinity bottle!
December 11, 2019
The main point of the book is to stop treating whiskey as if it was holy water, and regard it as an ingredient. A *lot* of suggestions and recipes on blending, so if that's your interest, this may be the book for you.
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