Fred Minnick

10/25/21

This is mostly a how to make mead and cocktail recipes using mead. The only history is the history of large scale production of mead for sale in a particular market by licensed makers in several places and not a history of mead itself. Useful if you want recipes or a manual to make mead but not much else.

3/30/22

Quick impressions: A book that acknowledges the role of women in distilling and making spirits, focusing on whiskey from early times to today. After a quick look at early history, we look at the evolution of whiskey and how women played a role in it: sometimes active roles, sometimes passive, sometimes opposing it (see those temperance people), sometimes bootlegging (in fact many women were seriously talented at bootlegging). Overall an interesting book.