Jim Murray's Whisky bible..????

If it's the spellings of whisk(e)y you're asking about, they're both derived from the Gaelic uisge beatha, water of life.

To my knowledge, Scotch is always spelled whisky, while Irish is always spelled whiskey. Don't know why. I believe the U.S. spelling is generally whiskey, while the Canadian version is often but not consistently whisky.

Looks like Murray's publishers have tried to tailor the title to different markets, and perhaps they are confusing enough book distributors that they are actually costing themselves sales.

cheers.

bill

You could try whiskybible.com and ask there. I have to say that I really enjoyed reading the whisky bible. An earlier post noted the possibly biassed comments of M Jackson and his description of a whisky seems to have no correlation with anything that I can taste. I like the fairly common sense approach of JM and the wide range of whiskies covered.

I agree, although I still like MJ's companion too (strange btw that the 'companion' is published in a hardcover: like a bible. and the JM's bible is published in a paperback, with tiny letters... like a companion (to take everywhere in your pocket)). Still your answer has nothing to do with my question: 'why there seems to be two different cover-titles'? So I will ask the question at whiskybible.com... and hope I get an answer...

Speaking of whiskybible.com, when is this site supposed to up and running?

I don't know the answer to that - but I do know that they respond to email enquiries already, so you could ask them.