1. My book, Whiskey: A Global History, now in its second printing. Available at Amazon.com and many other online book sellers.

2. My book is part of a Series of brief books that are dedicated to iconic food and drink.

3. Ardbeg Distillery, Scotland. Photo: Rick Anthony.

4. I have run AlcoholReviews.com since 1998.

5. What is Whiskey? A drink distilled from cereal grain that is aged in barrel. Cereal grain=barley, corn, rye, wheat

6. How is whiskey made? Cereal grain+hot water=mash (soup) Cooled mash+yeast [fermentation]=beer Beer+heat=alcoholic vapors [distillation] Vapors+cool=condensation into spirit And barrel aging.

7. Barley being germinated and dried, Laphroaig Distillery. Photo: Rick Anthony.

8. Malt being made in a mashtun, Bruichalddich Distillery, Scotland. Photo: Kevin R. Kosar.

9. Fermenting mash. Photo: Kevin R. Kosar.

10. Pot stills, Clynelish Distillery, Scotland. Photo: Rick Anthony.

11. Bourbon aging in Barrels, Maker’s Mark Distillery, Kentucky. Photo: Kevin R. Kosar.

12. How many types of whiskey are there? And how do they differ?

14. The history of whiskey is many stories….

15. So, who invented whiskey? Good question. Technology and Invention.

16. Alexandria 100 AD? Aristotle 350 BC

17. Technology of distillation migrated from Egypt to Europe Fifth-Century Huns? Medieval Irish monks? 1494 Friar John Cor.

18. Still, late 16 th Century Europe Still, late 1700s America. Photo: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

19. Pot still Patent still

20. Gooderham and Worts Distillery, late 1800s. City of Toronto Archives

21. A business story. London street peddlers, early 1800s. Library of Congress.

22. John Jameson, late 1700s? Jack Daniel, late 1800s.

23. Johnnie Walker advertisement, 1909.

24. Kid Rock and NASCAR, 2009. Photo: Action Sports Photography.

25. Yoichi Distillery, Japan. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

26. A political story. House of Common debate on illicit whiskey, 1806. Library of Congress.

27. O’Connell and Wellington talk politics, 1828. Library of Congress.

28. 1879 Depiction of 1794 Pennsylvania Whiskey Rebellion. Library of Congress.

29. Hillary Clinton campaigning with Bourbon, 2007. Photo: Associated Press.

30. A cruel, crooked, sad, and often ridiculous story. Caricature of Burke, 1782. Library of Congress.

31. Whiskey and mobocracy, c1805. Library of Congress.

32. American Indian caricature, 1870s. Library of Congress.

33. Medicinal whiskey, 1860s. Library of Congress.

34. Prohibition era photos, 1920s. Library of Congress.