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Nosing & Tasting the Water of Life: Blue Collar & Scholar Guide to Whisky Pairing is about single malt Scotch made from a traditional distilling process in Scotland and how it creates an existential relationship between this ancient tradition and a sensory experience waiting to unfold. The guide offers a history of how whisky made its way to Scotland and outwitted tax collectors for hundreds of years. It explores the process of distilling the single malt and describes the whisky regions and where distilleries are located. It also explores the alchemy of tasting the 'water of life'. Offers some science and lore and examines the language of whisky and the sometimes baffling and hard to pronounce names of the whisky distilleries. In addition, there are musings and advice on pairing the single malt with food, cigars, activities and sunsets, as well as trends and challenges for the whisky industry in the future.

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Gregory Cran is a university principal, a former Dean and Associate Professor. He has a PhD from the University of Victoria in Public Administration focussing on ethno-political conflict. He worked with the World Bank Institute and the United Nations Development Programme in Uzbekistan and has taught and lectured internationally. His book publishing includes: Negotiating Buck Naked: Doukhobors, Public Policy and Conflict Resolution (2006) UBC Press. He and his wife Wendy have travelled to Scotland numerous times, visiting subterranean relatives, learning about their enjoined past and experiencing the essence of what Scotland has to offer. Adam Drummond is a certified Automotive Service Technician who has been fixing cars for a living for the past 13 years. Although new car technology is now computer driven, highly intricate and complex, he claims it is still very much a blue collar job. When he is not working, he is a Scottish Highland Games Heavy Events athlete (tossing cabers and stones), coach and trainer.

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