Table of Contents
Foreword by Charles MacLean.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Start up the Still (Fritz Allhoff and Marcus P. Adams).
UNIT I The History and Culture of Whiskey.
Chapter 1: Scotch Whisky: From Origins to Conglomerates (Andrew Jefford).
Chapter 2: Provenance and Authenticity: The Dual Myths of Scotch (Ian Buxton).
Chapter 3: The Heritage of Scotch Whisky: From Monks to Surgeon Barbers (David Wishart).
Chapter 4: Women, Whiskey, and Libationary Liberation (Ada Brunstein).
Chapter 5: The Manhattan and You: Thinking about a Classic Whiskey Cocktail (Hans Allhoff).
UNIT II The Beauty and Experience of Whiskey.
Chapter 6: Whiskey, Whisky, Wild Living, and the Hedonistic Paradox (Robert Arp).
Chapter 7: What to Drink? Why We Choose the Bourbons We Do (Mark H. Waymack).
Chapter 8: The Phenomenology of Spirits: How Do Whiskeys Win Prizes (Douglas Burnham and Ole Martin Skilleas)?
Chapter 9: The Ideal Scotch: Lessons from Hegel (Thom Brooks).
Chapter 10: Where the Fiddich Meets the Spey: My Religious Experience (Harvey Siegel).
UNIT III The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Whiskey.
Chapter 11: As a Good Bartender Might: Whiskey and Natural Kinds (Thomas W. Polger).
Chapter 12: Heisenberg's Spirits: Tasting Is More Uncertain Than It Seems (Jerry O. Dalton).
Chapter 13: One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Buddhist Theory of No-Self (Steven F. Geisz).
Chapter 14: What Do Tasting Notes Tell Us (Ian J. Dove)?
UNIT IV Ethics and Whiskey.
Chapter 15: The Virtuous Whisky Drinker and Living Well (Richard Menary).
Chapter 16: Nasty Tempers: Does Whiskey Make People Immoral (Dave Monroe)?
Chapter 17: Whisky and the Wild: On Preserving Methods and Distilleries (Jason Kawall).
UNIT V Whiskey: A Sense of Place.
Chapter 18: Peat and Seaweed: The Expressive Character of Islay Whiskies (Kevin W. Sweeney).
Chapter 19: Japanese Whisky: ‘It’s Called Queen George, and It’s More Bitched Up Than Its Name’ (Chris Bunting).
Chapter 20: Whisky and Culture: From Islay to Speyside (Susie Pryor and Andrew Martin).
Appendix A: Whiskey Tasting Notes.
Appendix B: Our Favorite Whiskey Cocktails.
Contributor Biographies.
Index.
