How To Make Whiskey: A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Whiskey

This small book has more information than so many others I have purchased. If you are considering a home still, I can only encourage you to buy this book.

Loved it. Tired of reading books that add 200 pages of filler that I ultimately don't need or value. Bryan hits the important points quickly and concisely. Highly recommended.

You can burn through this book pretty quick. Its the basics, but enough to get started on your first batch (I think - I haven't tried yet.) If you are impatient like I am and just want to get started quick then this book is probably right for you. If you want to dive into lots of details and history then not so much.

Awesome book for beginners with some homebrew experience looking to expand into new territory. Not an exhaustive treatise on whiskey making, but just what we needed to get started. There is enough information here to take you from being a novice to becoming an experienced creative distiller. Wish the author had included more information, mostly because info he included is so clear, consise and useful that I'm sure he has more to teach us. Hopefully he will consider writing about other types of liquor in the future. We need a version of this book for brandy! and rum! and gin! and tequila!

Having read a lot of electronic documents, articles, blogs and other books about what goes into making an American Whiskey, I found that this little book is a gem! It takes the reader through the process from start to finish on what is needed to begin the process, what the legal ramifications are, and then it goes into the special part; the art of making a fine spirit. The author speaks on the topic like an artist placing brush to canvas and his passion is truly conveyed to the reader which makes the book a pleasure to read. The author also gives his knowledge in the recipes that are given in the book and detailed instructions on what is needed to complete the process. I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book for any craft or commercial distiller. This is a beauty of a book and is broken down so people like me can understand it. Thank you Mr. Davis for this book! Great work!

The book has a large collection of recipes and the detailed step by step process of making whiskey from mashing, fermenting, distilling to aging. Many different types and variations of whiskey are shown.

bought this book with the expectation of gaining some new useful insight to The Are of Distilling. The information is mostly just a reformatted rehash of information that is readily available for free on many of the Distilling Forums. The Author started out by tell us how the other books are full incorrect information and then proceeds to just repeat what he just criticized. As I read the book I keep waiting for something new, something useful. But it never appeared. I am not sure if all the glowing reviews are from friends and family but this book fails to meet the Authors own hype. If you never distilled anything in your life this might help but you can save your self the cost of this book and go to one of the Distilling groups and get the info for free. Just my observation for those of you who love the book enjoy it.

As a home brewer who built a still following John Stone's book 10 years ago, I have been looking all over for a good book on whiskey. There is so much bs written about this it boggles the mind. Many of the ingredients are you buy in brew shops are just wrong for this job.

Finally, a book which cuts through the misinformation, and provides both the recipes and the underlying explanations as well. My head is still spinning after reading this book, as some methods are completely opposite to those for the close cousin of whiskey - beer.

The Bay Area has led the world with Anchor Steam beer and many fine micro-brewing techniques that have spread across the world. Perhaps this book, again from this part of the world, will trigger a similar revolution for whiskey. I hope so.

I read all the reviews and had high hopes for this book...I was left pretty disappointed. For background, I've been homebrewing for several years and am very familiar with beer/wine and all-grain brewing. Sprits are a new area for me and I was hoping this would get me up to speed. Wrong. People mention it's a quick read and they aren't joking...this is a very small book, huge font, massive page spacing, some pictures and not many pages. All of that can be overlooked if the content is worthwhile though....and that was the final disappointment. The information in this book can all be picked up, in far greater detail and for free, simply by watching a few tube clips or using your favorite search engine. I can't see who this book would be good for. If you're a complete beginner, this book doesn't have enough detail to get you going and would probably leave you with more questions than answers. If you have some background going into it, this book doesn't have enough new info to where you will gain any new knowledge and as I said before, all the info in here is already posted everywhere for free. Skip this one.

I suppose I am in the minority here, but I found this book to be mostly irrelevant. It is a very short read and can be plowed through in an hour or two. There are no significant tables, diagrams, or recipes to refer back to in this book. And to top it all off, you can find most of this information on various wikipedia entries or cross-referencing with a couple home distiller sites.

This is not to say that the book does not do a good job covering the most basic of the basics, it does that well enough. It also gives some explanation as to why a certain whiskey is the way it is, and some basic instructions on how to mash/ferment/distill. There is only so much you can say in 90 pages of a small "book", and it is not going to be of much substance.

Truly this book provided me with no useful information that cannot easily be found on the internet already. I would suggest looking around for distilling websites like Brewhaus, Home Distiller, or ADI (and/or each of their forums as well) to get far more in depth information that has no price tag.