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The Jim Beam Story and the Making of the World’s #1 Bourbon

By F. Paul Pacult

The following is an excerpt from American Still Life: The Jim Beam Story and the Making of the World’s #1 Bourbon by F. Paul Pacult (John Wiley & Sons, $24.95) available wherever books are sold.

I didn’t come to appreciate and know whiskey well until 1989. Up until that time I had prided myself on being a wine journalist and instructor, surviving, even thriving in New York City. New York in the 1980s was a remarkable melting pot for the world’s wines. As American consumer interest in fine wine exploded, wines poured in from everywhere: Australia, Chile, Hungary, Argentina, Greece, Washington State, Oregon, Israel. I wrote about wine for various publications, consulted to wine shops in the northeast about what they should buy and how they should sell it, and owned and operated a wine school, Wine Courses International, out of a loft in lower Manhattan. Life was good.

Whiskey, however, was foreign territory, a dark and, in my mind, inhospitable continent. Wine was white or red. Whiskey was, well, brown.

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BLACK HAWK

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Ingredients:
1 1/4 oz. Jim Beam Black
1 1/4 oz. Sloe Gin
1 Cherry

Glassware: Cocktail Glass

Directions:
Stir blended whiskey and sloe gin with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Top with the cherry and serve.

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