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Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits (2011)

von Jason Wilson

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While some may wonder, "Does the world really need another flavored vodka?" no one answers this question quite so memorably as spirits writer and raconteur Jason Wilson does in Boozehound. (By the way, the short answer is no.) A unique blend of travelogue, spirits history, and recipe collection, Boozehound explores the origins of what we drink and the often surprising reasons behind our choices.In lieu of odorless, colorless, tasteless spirits, Wilson champions Old World liquors with hard-to-define flavors-a bitter and complex Italian amari, or the ancient, aromatic herbs of Chartreuse, as well as distinctive New World offerings like lively Peruvian pisco. With an eye for adventure, Wilson seeks out visceral experiences at the source of production-visiting fields of spiky agave in Jalisco, entering the heavily and reverently-guarded J germeister herb room in Wolfenb ttel, and journeying to the French Alps to determine if mustachioed men in berets really handpick blossoms to make elderflower liqueur.In addition, Boozehound offers more than fifty drink recipes, from three riffs on the Manhattan to cocktail-geek favorites like the Aviation and the Last Word. These recipes are presented alongside a host of opinionated essays that cherish the rare, uncover the obscure, dethrone the overrated, and unravel the mysteries of taste, trends, and terroir. Through his far-flung, intrepid traveling and tasting, Wilson shows us that perhaps nothing else as entwined with the history of human culture is quite as much fun as booze.… (mehr)
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There is a hint of snobbishness in this book, but it is almost all secondary to the subject at hand. For the booze, Wilson approaches the upper reaches of obscurity with a sense of adventure and openness that is hard to impugn, and his stories all have a simple, earnest character to them that may not be memorable, but connect deeply with someone interested in spirits as a lifestyle. ( )
  3Oranges | Jun 24, 2023 |
Enjoyable enough, felt like a speed-tour of Europe by means of spirits. The distillery tours were enjoyable to read about, as were the history facts. Wilson's attitudes were interesting, however, as his personal taste led him to embrace and reject certain popular liquors, an expression that felt hypocritical, but seems to be simple honesty, if honesty tinted with a certain lifestyle-journalism primness. ( )
  et.carole | Jan 21, 2022 |
Boozehound by the Washington Post's spirits journalist Jason Wilson is a Sea Breeze of a read, light and sweet but with a hint of punch. He writes about many common spirits, gin, rum, cognac, pisco and other brandies, eaux-de-vie, as well as some popular liqueurs from absinthe to Chartreuse to St. Germain to Tuacua. He weaves the tales of these spirits with where he drank them, who he met while trying them, how they tasted, what particular adventures he experienced at the time. Like a good wine, much of the pleasure he derives from his boozing is the associations particular drinks have to him. He discusses terroir, which apply to certain drinks just as much as they do to wine, and you learn a bit about the business of producing and bringing these interesting alcoholic beverages to market. He ends each chapter with recipes and provides some basic bar tending tips in the appendix. If you can summarize his advice to those who aspire to be boozehounds, it would be don't be afraid to try new and unusual things at the bar. Go out of your comfort zone. And also that you can make a lot of cocktails at home once you get some basic essentials. Even though he is not a fan of vodka (flavorless) and its ridiculous flavors (he would limit it to Citron and Vanilla), he does acknowledge that you should keep a bottle around at home since "inevitably someone's going to come over and want a vodka tonic." ( )
  OccassionalRead | Dec 20, 2019 |
I bought this one for my boyfriend the cocktail hobbyist. The top of the fridge used to be big enough for this one of many hobbies - but now I only have myself to blame. He enjoyed the book immensely, so I picked it up and also found it enjoyable. Lots of fun little anecdotes sprinkled with cocktail recipes. It will rapidly become dated by its pop-culture references, but it made me laugh. And a homemade Singapore sling is a nice thing to come home to. ( )
  cindywho | May 27, 2019 |
I have long wanted to learn about liquor, but all the books I have picked up were pretentious tomes talking down to suburbanites like myself. (Yes, I know I have terrible taste in wine… and I admit it - I have no idea what is in a Tom Collins… so just get over it!)

This book is part travel memoir, part spirit review, part cocktail recipe book. Each chapter takes you on a journey through the author’s past and attempts to educate the reader about how to taste and understand the flavors in various obscure (and often maligned) spirits. The author includes recipes at the end of each chapter and stresses how the proper ingredients can be the difference between a good cocktail and a sub-par (or just plain awful) drink.
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  memccauley6 | May 3, 2016 |
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While some may wonder, "Does the world really need another flavored vodka?" no one answers this question quite so memorably as spirits writer and raconteur Jason Wilson does in Boozehound. (By the way, the short answer is no.) A unique blend of travelogue, spirits history, and recipe collection, Boozehound explores the origins of what we drink and the often surprising reasons behind our choices.In lieu of odorless, colorless, tasteless spirits, Wilson champions Old World liquors with hard-to-define flavors-a bitter and complex Italian amari, or the ancient, aromatic herbs of Chartreuse, as well as distinctive New World offerings like lively Peruvian pisco. With an eye for adventure, Wilson seeks out visceral experiences at the source of production-visiting fields of spiky agave in Jalisco, entering the heavily and reverently-guarded J germeister herb room in Wolfenb ttel, and journeying to the French Alps to determine if mustachioed men in berets really handpick blossoms to make elderflower liqueur.In addition, Boozehound offers more than fifty drink recipes, from three riffs on the Manhattan to cocktail-geek favorites like the Aviation and the Last Word. These recipes are presented alongside a host of opinionated essays that cherish the rare, uncover the obscure, dethrone the overrated, and unravel the mysteries of taste, trends, and terroir. Through his far-flung, intrepid traveling and tasting, Wilson shows us that perhaps nothing else as entwined with the history of human culture is quite as much fun as booze.

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