The Malt Cask

When I started properly getting into whisky a couple of years ago, I decided to look online for a book about it. If you look around several websites (amazon in particular) you will come across many different books, from Ian Buxton's  101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die  to  Malt Whisky: The Complete Guide  by Charles MacLean, to Michael Jackson's  Malt Whisky Companion . The one I decided to go for is  The World Atlas of Whisky  by Dave Broom, the 2nd edition. Why? Well because to me, this book is a bit of a reference as you get pretty much everything you need to know about whisky in one place.  It starts with an introduction about what whisky is and explains the different production methods (malt, grain, single pot still, Kentucky and Tennesse). Then you get more detail about flavour profiles and tasting before reaching a map of Scotland. After that, the rest of the book is divided into regions (Speyside, Highlands, Lowlands, Islay, Islands, Ca...

After the tasting notes, the culinary tips, the feedback on tasting sessions, I thought I would include a "resource" section about whisky. I am a teacher after all! In that section I will present books or websites I use to get general information about whisky or to get more specific information about a bottle or a distillery before I decide to part with my hard-earned cash (I am now waiting for comments about teachers vs hard-earned cash...!) In this first post, I am not going to present the first book I bought about whisky (Dave Broom's The world atlas of Whisky ) but one many people consider the reference in terms of whisky: Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2016. As its name indicates, this book is a bit of a reference for tasting notes of around 4,600 whiskies from around the world. I had never looked at one before the 2016 edition, but considering the fact that it comes up so frequently around the whisky industry, I thought I would order it. I am not goi...