Arnold The Terroir of Whiskey

A Distiller's Journey Into the Flavor of Place
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-55089-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History

The master distiller Rob Arnold reveals how innovative whiskey producers are recapturing a sense of place to create distinctive, nuanced flavors. He takes readers on a world tour of whiskey and the science of flavor, stopping along the way at distilleries in Kentucky, New York, Texas, Ireland, and Scotland.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arnold, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Lebensmitteltechnologie und Getränketechnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Kochen, Essen, Trinken
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften: Ernährung & Gesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I: Fashioning Flavor, Tasting Terroir
1. A Farm in Texas
2. The Production and Perception of Flavor
3. The Chemistry of Flavor
4. The Wine Terroir Tasting
5. Wine Country
6. The Evolutionary Role of Terroir
7. The Rise of Commodities
Part II: A Roadmap to Terroir
8. A Texas Tic-Tac-Toe
9. The Chemistry of Terroir
10. The Roadmap
11. Overlaying the Maps
Part III: Following the Map
12. Whiskey in the Big Apple
13. The Trilogy of Farming
14. My Old Kentucky Home
15. Corn, Wheat, and Rye Among the Bluegrass
16. Across the Pond and Through the Hills
17. TEIREOIR
18. Cultivating Flavor on the Farms of Éire
19. At Last, a Sip
20. The Church of Scotch Whisky
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Whiskey Terroir Tasting Guide
Appendix 2: Key to the Roadmap: Sources for Chapter 10
Appendix 3: Key to the Roadmap: Sources for Chapter 11
Appendix 4: Key to the Roadmap: Sources for Chapter 17
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rob Arnold is the master distiller at the TX Whiskey distillery and a third-generation member of the whiskey industry. He is the coauthor of Shots of Knowledge: The Science of Whiskey (2016) and is a PhD candidate in plant breeding and genetics at Texas A&M University.