Tag Archives: Books

Book Review: Moonshine

By Richard Thomas In what one pundit called “The Golden Age of Whiskey Books,” moonshine has been getting a disproportionate amount of attention. I imagine this is because illicit liquor-making makes for such good non-fiction storytelling, and just maybe the hipster chic that attached itself to moonshine several years ago helps just a bit too. Yet most books on the ...

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Neal Thompson Talks Whiskey

Neal Thompson

By Richard Thomas One of the things the whiskey boom has brought about is what they are calling “The Golden Age of Whiskey Books.” Books about whiskey and every imaginable intersection with whiskey are coming out just about every week, as we well know here at The Whiskey Reviewer because of how frustrated we are by our inability to read and ...

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Karen Abbott Talks Whiskey

Kare Abbott

By Richard Thomas American history and whiskey are inextricably intertwined, starting with George Washington’s white rye-making distillery and The Whiskey Rebellion, or perhaps even further back with the roots of Bomberger’s Distillery and Elijah Craig if you believe the legends. Whiskey is such a constant fixture in the American story that getting away from it is nearly impossible, especially if ...

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Whiskey Reviewer Editor Publishes New Novel

Mother Earth, Bloody Ground

The owner and managing editor of The Whiskey Reviewer published his new novel today, the second volume in the Stonewall Goes West series. As Part Two of the Stonewall Goes West trilogy, Mother Earth, Bloody Ground continues to answer the greatest “what if?” of the Civil War: what if Stonewall Jackson had survived the Battle of Chancellorsville? Through a combination ...

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Stonewall Goes West Available in Paperback and on Kindle

The Kindle version for Stonewall Goes West, the new novel from Whiskey Reviewer editor R.E. Thomas, is now available on Amazon. In addition to being available for regular purchase, Amazon Prime subscribers can “borrow” the book for free until mid-July. Stonewall Goes West answers the Civil War’s most popular alternate history question, “what if Stonewall Jackson had lived?”, in a ...

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