Book reviews are like buses you wait for 2 years and then 2 come along at once.

This 2007 publication of the book I bought from a fabulous second hand book store in Alnwick in Northumberland. If you are ever in the area you should definitely give it a go. Inside an old railway station the bookshop is vast and continues a very popular cafe. The name comes from the way the shop gets its stock, they only take in from the public and you don’t sell your books, vinyl, sheet music or cd’s for cash but for store credit.

For more info on them check out: https://www.barterbooks.co.uk/

There is a new version of this book and in the details section below I will leave links to both versions. Clearly though being bought in a second hand place there is far more copies of older versions of books than newer updates. That for me though is a positive and not a negative.

The book is written by Charles Maclean, the very well known writer, consultant in whisky & spirit branding, an experience host and media personality. He also has a distinctive voice and style. As one half of the whisky cask supplier and events company Maclean&Bruce they have one product I would love to be affluent enough to afford to give a go. I can’t really explain it well enough without you seeing it for yourself though. The below YouTube video follows a couple doing exactly that experience though.

The book itself is a pocket sized paperback which starts at the usual “what is whisky” stage and progresses into the ingredients and production method with some chapters on whisky, closed distilleries and marketing.

It’s one of those books which can work well as a gift and as a reference book for someone who maybe blogs or something 🙂

Book Details

Title	MacLean’s Miscellany of Whisky
Author	Charles Maclean
ISBN	9781904435921
Links	https://amzn.to/4o7psmc
	https://amzn.to/4qnSoaY – new version