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RR 2012/032 The World Atlas of Whisky Dave Broom Mitchell Beazley London 2010 320 pp. ISBN 978 1 84533 541 0 £30
Keywords Alcoholic drinks, Maps, Spirits
Review DOI 10.11 08/095041 212111 95360
We all know Whisky Galore, from Alexander Mackendrick's 1948 Ealing Comedy if not from Compton Mackenzie's novel of the previous year. But, fortunately, one's surname does not have to begin with Mack in order to appreciate the benefits of whisky - drunk in moderation, of course! Indeed, if we expand the spelling to whiskey, as Mr Broom does implicitly in this excellent volume, you do not even have to be called Paddy or Bud and come from Kilbeggan or Kentucky.
Part of the reason for the appearance of The World Atlas of Whisky now is the proliferation of small distilleries, not only in Scotland, Ireland and the USA, but also in Japan and now, believe it or not, in the UK! And it is not only distilleries, for there are now...