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All Liquored Up - The History of Alcohol and Drinking (nonfiction)
1.
Bourbon: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an American Whiskey
by:
Fred Minnick
3.79 avg rating β 625 ratings
2.
Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America's Whiskey
by:
Reid Mitenbuler
3.97 avg rating β 1,562 ratings
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Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
by:
Iain Gately
3.86 avg rating β 905 ratings
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
by:
Daniel Okrent
3.88 avg rating β 8,421 ratings
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by:
Tom Standage
3.81 avg rating β 32,787 ratings
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Drunk in China: Baijiu and the World's Oldest Drinking Culture
by:
Derek Sandhaus
4.13 avg rating β 76 ratings
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The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution
by:
Tom Acitelli
3.90 avg rating β 586 ratings
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Understanding Mezcal
by:
James Schroeder
4.61 avg rating β 38 ratings
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Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages
by:
Patrick E. McGovern
3.72 avg rating β 190 ratings
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Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
by:
Mark Lawrence Schrad
3.98 avg rating β 404 ratings
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Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause
by:
Tom Gjelten
4.08 avg rating β 1,340 ratings
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The Brewer's Tale: A History of the World According to Beer
by:
William Bostwick
3.78 avg rating β 700 ratings
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The United States of Beer: A Freewheeling History of the All-American Drink
by:
Dane Huckelbridge
3.89 avg rating β 391 ratings
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Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer
by:
William Knoedelseder
4.04 avg rating β 5,826 ratings
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The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer That Changed the World
by:
Stephen Mansfield
3.84 avg rating β 2,395 ratings
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
by:
Lisa McGirr
3.82 avg rating β 414 ratings
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Al Capone's Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition
by:
John J. Binder
3.48 avg rating β 200 ratings
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The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game
by:
Edward Achorn
3.77 avg rating β 1,152 ratings
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The Business of Spirits: How Savvy Marketers, Innovative Distillers, and Entrepreneurs Changed How We Drink
by:
Noah Rothbaum
3.49 avg rating β 45 ratings
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Have Ye No Homes To Go To?: The History of the Irish Pub
by:
Kevin Martin
3.86 avg rating β 35 ratings
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The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking
by:
Olivia Laing
3.75 avg rating β 3,555 ratings
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Good Spirits: A New Look at Ol' Demon Alcohol
by:
Gene Logsdon
4.21 avg rating β 38 ratings
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Stalin's Wine Cellar
by:
John Baker
3.90 avg rating β 843 ratings
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One More Beer, Please: Q&A With American Breweries Vol. 1
by:
Jon Nelsen
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 5 ratings
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And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
by:
Wayne Curtis
4.04 avg rating β 2,957 ratings
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When the Rivers Ran Red: An Amazing Story of Courage and Triumph in America's Wine Country
by:
Vivienne Sosnowski
3.29 avg rating β 75 ratings
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Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World
by:
Judith M. Bennett
3.77 avg rating β 132 ratings
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Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940
by:
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
3.52 avg rating β 40 ratings
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Drinking in America: Our Secret History
by:
Susan Cheever
3.29 avg rating β 921 ratings
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The Year of Drinking Adventurously: 52 Ways to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
by:
Jeff Cioletti
3.88 avg rating β 25 ratings
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Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America
by:
Brian F Haara
3.91 avg rating β 108 ratings
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Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out: Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch, and How Craft Beer Became Big Business
by:
Josh Noel
4.34 avg rating β 1,033 ratings
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English Alehouse: A Social History, 1200-1830
by:
Peter Alan Clark
3.75 avg rating β 8 ratings
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Founding Spirits
by:
Dennis J. Pogue
3.55 avg rating β 20 ratings
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The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing
by:
Charlie Papazian
4.29 avg rating β 3,622 ratings
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Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures
by:
Paul Lukacs
3.55 avg rating β 250 ratings
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Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason
by:
Jessica Warner
3.25 avg rating β 219 ratings
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Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey
by:
Fred Minnick
3.56 avg rating β 331 ratings
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The Story of the Drinking Horn: Drinking Culture in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages (21) (Publications from the National Museum Studies in Archaeology & History)
by:
Vivian Etting
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Kentucky Bourbon: The Early Years of Whiskeymaking
by:
Henry G. Crowgey
3.40 avg rating β 40 ratings
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The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
by:
Julia Flynn Siler
3.71 avg rating β 1,912 ratings
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The Whiskey Rebellion and the Rebirth of Rye
by:
Mark Meyer
3.79 avg rating β 62 ratings
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Big Whiskey: Kentucky Bourbon, Tennessee Whiskey, the Rebirth of Rye, and the Distilleries of America's Premier Spirits Region
by:
Thomas Nelson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 42 ratings
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Whiskey Business: How Small-Batch Distillers Are Transforming American Spirits
by:
Tom Acitelli
3.63 avg rating β 46 ratings
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Classic Irish Whiskey
by:
Jim Murray
4.40 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Politics under the Influence: Vodka and Public Policy in Putin's Russia
by:
Anna L. Bailey
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
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The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty
by:
William Hogeland
3.67 avg rating β 1,036 ratings
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The Art of American Whiskey: A Visual History of the Nation's Most Storied Spirit, Through 100 Iconic Labels
by:
Noah Rothbaum
4.08 avg rating β 49 ratings
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A History of Wine in America, Volume 2: From Prohibition to the Present
by:
Thomas Pinney
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 12 ratings
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Gentlemen Bootleggers: The True Story of Templeton Rye, Prohibition, and a Small Town in Cahoots
by:
Bryce T. Bauer
3.89 avg rating β 125 ratings
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Mountain Spirits: A Chronicle of Corn Whiskey and the Southern Appalachian Moonshine Tradition
by:
Joseph Earl Dabney
3.95 avg rating β 58 ratings
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Beer: A History of Brewing in Chicago
by:
Bob Skilnik
3.56 avg rating β 27 ratings
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The Golden Elixir of the West: Whiskey and the Shaping of America
by:
Sherry Monahan
3.38 avg rating β 24 ratings
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Donβt Never Tell Nobody Nothinβ No How: The Real Story of West Coast Rum Running
by:
Rick James
3.65 avg rating β 17 ratings
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Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World
by:
Charles D. Thompson Jr.
3.91 avg rating β 64 ratings
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A Thousand Thirsty Beaches: Smuggling Alcohol from Cuba to the South During Prohibition
by:
Lisa Lindquist Dorr
3.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Prohibition: America Makes Alcohol Illegal
by:
Daniel Cohen
3.20 avg rating β 10 ratings
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The Heineken Story: The remarkably refreshing tale of the beer that conquered the world
by:
Barbara Smit
3.93 avg rating β 102 ratings
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Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer
by:
Maureen Ogle
3.81 avg rating β 622 ratings
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Prohibition in Atlanta: Temperance, Tiger Kings & White Lightning
by:
Ronald Smith
3.61 avg rating β 23 ratings
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The Coming of Southern Prohibition: The Dispensary System and the Battle over Liquor in South Carolina, 1907-1915
by:
Michael Lewis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Brewing Revolution: Pioneering the Craft Beer Movement
by:
Frank Appleton
3.85 avg rating β 39 ratings
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Southern Prohibition: Race, Reform, and Public Life in Middle Florida, 1821-1920
by:
Lee L. Willis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Citizen Coors : A Grand Family Saga of Business, Politics, and Beer
by:
Dan Baum
3.84 avg rating β 187 ratings
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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
by:
Karen Blumenthal
3.68 avg rating β 1,063 ratings
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Brew North: How Canadians Made Beer and Beer Made Canada
by:
Ian Coutts
3.97 avg rating β 39 ratings
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Cheers! A History Of Beer In Canada
by:
Nicholas Pashley
3.71 avg rating β 59 ratings
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Vodka: How a Colorless, Odorless, Flavorless Spirit Conquered America
by:
Victorino Matus
4.04 avg rating β 71 ratings
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A Sidecar Named Desire: Great Writers and the Booze That Stirred Them
by:
Greg Clarke
3.81 avg rating β 93 ratings
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Still & Barrel: Craft Spirits in the Old North State
by:
John Trump
4.33 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love
by:
Simran Sethi
3.75 avg rating β 755 ratings
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Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times
by:
Don Kladstrup
4.05 avg rating β 663 ratings
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The Comic Book Story of Beer: The World's Favorite Beverage from 7000 BC to Today's Craft Brewing Revolution
by:
Jonathan Hennessey
4.02 avg rating β 1,140 ratings
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The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto
by:
Bernard DeVoto
3.73 avg rating β 222 ratings
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Brewing Mead: Wassail! In Mazers of Mead: The Intriguing History of the Beverage of Kings and Easy, Step-by-Step Instructions for Brewing It At Home
by:
Robert Gayre
3.78 avg rating β 40 ratings
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The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
by:
Benjamin Wallace
3.56 avg rating β 8,152 ratings
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Egypt's Beer: Stella, Identity, and the Modern State
by:
Omar D. Foda
4.17 avg rating β 12 ratings
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Scotch Whisky: A Liquid History
by:
Charles MacLean
4.08 avg rating β 40 ratings
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Tampa Bay Beer: A Heady History
by:
Mark DeNote
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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The Book of Gin: A Spirited World History from Alchemists' Stills and Colonial Outposts to Gin Palaces, Bathtub Gin, and Artisanal Cocktails
by:
Richard Barnett
3.50 avg rating β 252 ratings
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Western North Carolina Beer: A Mountain Brew History
by:
Ken Grossman
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Rum: The Epic Story Of The Drink That Conquered The World
by:
Charles A. Coulombe
3.73 avg rating β 83 ratings
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Blood & Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel
by:
Peter Krass
3.60 avg rating β 117 ratings
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The Pub: A Cultural Institution - from Country Inns to Craft Beer Bars and Corner Locals
by:
Pete Brown
3.94 avg rating β 49 ratings
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Portland Beer Stories: Behind the Scenes with the City's Craft Brewers
by:
Steven Shomler
3.50 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Shackleton's Whisky: a Spirit of Discovery ... Ernest Shackleton's 1907 Antarctic Expedition And the Rare Malt Whisky He Left Behind
by:
Neville Peat
4.13 avg rating β 111 ratings
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The Great Florida Craft Beer Guide
by:
Mark DeNote
2.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit
by:
Dane Huckelbridge
3.77 avg rating β 516 ratings
88.
Atlanta Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in the Hub of the South
by:
Ronald Smith
3.65 avg rating β 20 ratings
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Man Walks into a Pub: A Sociable History of Beer
by:
Pete Brown
3.98 avg rating β 546 ratings
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Drunks: An American History
by:
Christopher M. Finan
3.35 avg rating β 150 ratings
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Beer in America: The Early Years--1587-1840: Beer's Role in the Settling of America and the Birth of a Nation
by:
Gregg Smith
3.45 avg rating β 175 ratings
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America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops
by:
Christine Sismondo
3.65 avg rating β 255 ratings
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The Home Brewer's Guide to Vintage Beer: Rediscovered Recipes for Classic Brews Dating from 1800 to 1965
by:
Ronald Pattinson
3.92 avg rating β 62 ratings
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Michael Jackson's Beer Companion: The World's Great Beer Styles, Gastronomy, and Traditions
by:
Michael Jackson
4.34 avg rating β 177 ratings
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Napa Wine: A History
by:
Charles L. Sullivan
3.20 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation
by:
Stephen Harrod Buhner
4.27 avg rating β 723 ratings
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Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
by:
David Hancock
3.94 avg rating β 32 ratings
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Gallo Be Thy Name: The Inside Story of How a Secretive but Well-connected Family Rose to Dominate the U.S. Wine Market
by:
Jerome Tuccille
3.53 avg rating β 77 ratings
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Ambitious Brew : The Story of American Beer
by:
Maureen Ogle
3.81 avg rating β 622 ratings
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