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Shots of Knowledge: The Science of Whiskey

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WINNER, “BEST IN THE WORLD” distinction within the “HALL OF FAME” category, 2017 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 

FINALIST, “WINE, BEER, & SPIRITS” category, 
2017 IACP Cookbook Awards

Shots of Knowledge
is a guidebook for whiskey lovers. Organized into approximately sixty illustrated essays, the book samples selected topics in whiskey production throughout the lenses of science and engineering.  

Even as the essays are subdivided into three sections–From Sunshine to Sugar, From Wee Beasties to White Dogs, and From Barrel to Brain–the reader is free to sip them in any order. The story commences with water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight; travels throughout the manufacturing process; and ends with the molecules that entertain the palate.

Whether the subject is photosynthesis, bubble caps, oak speciation, or a mechanistic enzymology, the essays are looking for to expose the simple beauty too frequently hidden in science and engineering. At approximately one page in length, Each and every essay and accompanying artwork will also be digested slowly on the rate estimated at three essays per bourbon or Scotch.

Each and every essay is summarized in one or two sentences in a single  “Shot of Knowledge.” Iconography anchors Each and every essay within the production process. Inspiration for the book derived from a productive collision between individuals from TCU and the Firestone & Robertson Distilling Company.

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