There are many people who deserve acknowledgment for this book. There are the people who started me on my career in distilling history at United Distillers: Nicholas Morgan, Chris Morris, Mike Wright, and Edwin Foote. Flaget Nally and Mary Hite and all the other ladies at the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History. All my other friends in the industry such as Al Young, Larry Kass, Mark Brown, Julian Van Winkle III and his sister Sally Van Winkle Campbell, Lincoln Henderson, Drew Kulsveen, Jimmy Russell, Elmer T. Lee, and all the others who would answer questions for me. There are people at the Filson Historical Society such as Jim Holmberg, Jacob Lee, Robin Wallace, Sarah Jane Poindexter, and the others in Special Collections who would cover my shifts when I took days off to do some research. There are my friends such as John Lipman, Howie Stoopes, and Timothy Stephen who would read chapters and give me feedback. Finally, there is Laura Sutton, who got me started on the book, and Nancy Stephen, who was kind enough not only to read the manuscript but also to give valuable feedback and to keep me to a timetable.