Best whiskey books according to redditors

General

• Tasting Whisky: An Insider's Guide to the Unique Pleasures of the World's Finest Spirits
  
  Bourbon
  
  
• Bourbon Straight: The Uncut and Unfiltered Story of American Whiskey
  
• Bourbon Curious: A Simple Tasting Guide for the Savvy Drinker
  
• Bourbon, Strange
  
  Scotch/Malt
  
  

• Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible
  
• The World Atlas of Whisky
  
• Malt Whisky Yearbook 2017

i think it's a page from this http://www.amazon.com/Still-Life-Bottle-According-Steadman/dp/0151003106

Oak extraction is not the same as maturation. Chuck Cowdery wrote a tiny ebook called Small Barrels Produce Lousy Whiskey and this bottle is an even more extreme version of the small barrel. I fall squarely in the "gimmick" camp.

Here is a good general interest book:

https://smile.amazon.com/Wood-Whiskey-Wine-History-Barrels-ebook/dp/B00OV4VJTC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503031823&sr=8-1

Note, you probably want to take all that tracking garbage off the end of your Amazon links. It's enough to list:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0993298605/

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1845339428/

For beginners, I would also recommend Tasting Whiskey:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1612123015

> Cool, have fun with it!

Thanks, I'm sure I will. Perhaps a tad too much fun. It's only been a couple of weeks, but I'm already feeling like perhaps I'm drinking a little too much of it. It's just something about each sip of each type, noticing the flavours, nosing the glass before, during and after...

And it's more than just the drinking of it. These past couple of weeks, the topic of whisky is rarely far from my mind. I keep thinking about what to buy next, reading different articles and reviews, I just ordered a book on the subject, and I'm thinking on getting a few different glasses to complement my Glencairn... Yeah, it's safe to say I'm getting quite hooked.

As someone who usually dives deep and headfirst into new hobbies this is nothing new, and I'm really loving learning new things about a new topic like this. I haven't really been this obsessive since I got into home theatre and DVDs back in the late 90s. Fun stuff.

Thanks again. The reddit whisky subs and everyone in them have been great. It's part of what's made this so much fun so far.

I too am a scotch drinker. Here are some of my favorite books on the subject:
Guide to Urban Moonshining

How to make whiskey

The Complete guide to single malt scotch

Some of them are about making whiskey but they go into details on the history and background of different whiskeys which i found very interesting. My favorite of the 3 is the urban moonshining one.

I haven't used one before but you could also get him a nice water dropper for whiskey and/or a glencairn glass.