Whiskey Women
The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey
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Product details:
- Publisher Potomac Books
- Date of Publication 1 September 2020
- Number of Volumes Trade Paperback
- ISBN 9781640123618
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 346 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 27 photographs, 3 illustrations, index 142
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Best All-Time Booze Book, Eater.com2013
GOLD Winner for Women Studies, ForeWord Reviews 2014
Silver, Independent Publisher Award in Women's Issues
Finalist, Spirited Awards
Shortly after graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1934, Elizabeth “Bessie” Williamson began working as a temporary secretary at the Laphroaig Distillery on the Scottish island Islay. Williamson quickly found herself joining the boys in the tasting room, studying the distillation process, and winning them over with her knowledge of Scottish whisky.
After the owner of Laphroaig passed away, Williamson took over the prestigious company and became the spokesperson in America for the entire Scotch whisky industry. Impressing clients and showing her passion as the Scotch Whisky Association’s trade ambassador, she soon gained fame within the industry.
Whiskey Women tells the tales of women who have created this industry, from Mesopotamia’s first beer brewers and distillers to America’s rough-and-tough bootleggers during Prohibition. Women have long distilled, marketed, and owned significant shares in spirits companies, including Bushmills, Johnnie Walker, and Maker’s Mark. Williamson’s story is one of many among the influential women who greatly influenced Scotch, bourbon, and Irish whiskey. Until now their stories have remained untold.
Table of Contents:
A Note to Readers
Introduction
1. Before Whiskey
2. The First Distillations
3. Tough Irish Women
4. Early Scotch Whisky Women
5. Early American Women
6. The Targeted and Early Marketers
7. Temperance Women
8. Women Moonshiners and Bootleggers in Prohibition
9. Repeal Women Saving Whiskey
10. The Post-Prohibition Legal Battles
11. Post-Prohibition Women Bootleggers
12. Whiskey's Progressive Side
13. The Lady of Laphroaig
14. Modern Women
15. Organizing the Whiskey Effort
16. For Women, by Women
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
