【カバー袖より内容紹介】Whiskey is a global drink. Throughout the world, ambitious distilleries have come up with whiskey that is both worth seeing and drinking to rival the purist Irish whiskey and the perfectionist Scotch whisky. Small and convenient, this guide offers a compact overview of the world of whiskey, distinguishing between the characteristics of the many distilleries and the flavor that evolves through the specific cask. The reader learns about the process of distilling, the most important ingredients and all the various types of whiskey, there are astonishing and unexpected facts from the history of whiskey.