After what seems an eternity of planning, traveling from coast to coast, and writing, Davin de Kergommeaux and Blair Phillips are overjoyed that their book, called The Definitive Guide to Canadian Distilleries, is published and available on the Appetite by Random House imprint of Penguin Random House Canada.
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The book is part narrative, part tasting guide and part roadmap to over 250 of Canada's operating distilleries, large and small.
It includes tasting notes, cocktail recipes, anecdotes and little-known details for visitors and armchair visitors alike. The Definitive Guide to Canadian Distilleries is a beautiful book and will be much-sought-after.
Thank you to everyone who has helped and hosted us in our travels. The book is now available everywhere books are sold. Enjoy it!
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The Definitive Guide to Canadian Distilleries is 320 full colour pages for just $31.95 ($24.95 US). Available where books are sold. Order it now at Penguin Random House.
Your favourite bookstore can order it for you too.
Just tell them to ask for ISBN-13: 978-0525610588 from their Penguin Random House sales representative.
Authors
DAVIN DE KERGOMMEAUX
Davin is a drinks writer, public speaker and spirits judge, recognized as the world expert on Canadian whisky.
BLAIR PHILLIPS
Blair is a lifestyle and spirits writer specializing in Canada's growing landscape of spirits and distilleries.
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Watch Davin on the Whisky Cast “Happy Hour” webcast
Davin joins Lew Bryson, Ian Buxton and host Mark Gillespie to talk about new books including The Definitive Guide to Canadian Distilleries.
Watch what the Whisky Whistle has to say
Mark reviews Davin de Kergommeaux & Blair Phillips new book The Definitive Guide to Canadian Distilleries and highlights his favourite parts in this whisky and spirits tome.
Episode 150 of the Whisky Topic interviews Davin
Davin joins Mark Bylok and Jamie Johnson to talk about The Definitive Guide to Canadian Distilleries. They talk about the writing process, the outstanding products distilled in Canada, and the journey of Canadian whisky.
Whisky Book Club
Dolph Shaw and his panel of whisky lovers work their way across this vast beautiful country of ours, interviewing owners and distillers highlighted in The Definitive Guide to Canadian Distilleries. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS2CZ3ByaqNVcv2w_H04im0Yrx_t-e-0e
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It all started when…
While traveling across Canada, writing a Canadian whisky adventure series for Whisky Magazine, we experienced Canada’s distilling scene just as it was taking off. The idea to turn this into a book gelled in July 2014, in Newfoundland after we stumbled into a biker bar and walked away with limbs intact.
Along the way we had been chased by a 1-tonne rodeo bull in Edmonton, were stranded in the middle of nowhere, south of Calgary with a bunch of drunks on a battered party bus seemingly held together only by its stripper pole. We had poured Crown Royal on the grave of a famous New Brunswick bootlegger, met a new generation of bootleggers and best of all, had tasted hundreds of fabulous spirits. We figured people would welcome a guidebook to visiting Canada’s 250 distilleries without the need for stunt doubles. Fortunately, the people at Appetite by Random House, who published Davin’s Canadian whisky book agreed.