"Explore the exciting world of spirits and cocktails with Lonely Planet. From gin, bourbon and whisky to vodka, cacha?a, tequila and more, we tell you where to go and what to taste at the best distilleries and bars in over 30 countries."--Back cover.

With the popularity of bourbon becoming a global phenomenon, the historic town of Bardstown, KY, is booming - but all booms come with growing pains. This first book of the new Economics of Vice series tells the story of Bardstown's challenges, traditions, opportunities, and the people who shouldered them all.

"Mezcal. In recent years, the oldest spirit in the Americas has been reinvented as an expensive positional good that has become popular among booze connoisseurs and the mixologists who use it as a cocktail ingredient. Yet, unlike most high-end distillates, mezcal is typically produced by and for subsistence farming communities, often under extremely challenging conditions. Greene visits remote, marginalized villages in the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero,...