| Description |
1 online resource |
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Before whiskey -- The first distillations -- Tough Irish women -- Early Scotch whisky women -- Early American women -- The targeted and early marketers -- Temperance women -- Women moonshiners and bootleggers in Prohibition -- Repeal women saving whiskey -- The post-prohibition legal battles -- Post-prohibition women bootleggers -- Whiskey's progressive side -- The Lady of Laphroaig -- Modern women -- Organizing the whiskey effort -- For women, by women |
| Summary |
Shortly after graduating from University of Glasgow in 1934, Elizabeth "Bessie" Williamson began working as a temporary secretary at the Laphroaig Distillery on the Scottish island Islay. Williamson quickly found herself joining the boys in the tasting room, studying the distillation process, and winning them over with her knowledge of Scottish whisky. After the owner of Laphroaig passed away, Williamson took over the prestigious company and became the American spokesperson for the entire Scotch whisky industry. Impressing clients and showing her passion as the Scotch Whisky Association's trade ambassador, she soon gained fame within the industry, becoming known as the greatest female distiller. This book tells the tales of women who have created this industry, from Mesopotamia's first beer brewers and distillers to America's rough-and-tough bootleggers during Prohibition. Women have long distilled, marketed, and owned significant shares in spirits companies. Williamson's story is one of many among the influential women who changed the Scotch whisky industry as well as influenced the American bourbon whiskey and Irish whiskey markets |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Whiskey industry -- History
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Whiskey -- History
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Distillers -- History
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Businesswomen -- History
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Women -- History.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Businesswomen
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Distillers
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Whiskey
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Whiskey industry
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Women
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781612345659 |
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1612345654 |
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