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 Jägermeister herb room
in Wolfenbüttel, 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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