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The New Zealand Whisky Book

出版	Collins, 1980
ISBN	00021697389780002169738
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0c3iAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"From the crudest of firewaters such as Owen McShanes "Chained lightning" to Southland's famous Hokonui which gained a solid reputation in the hands of "Chief" Murdoch McRae and others, the history of illegal whisky distillation in New Zealand is as much a part of our folklore as the tales of American moonshine. Government approved distillation is also part of Stuart Perry's story as he traces the history of legitemate whisky from the days of Howden's in Dunedin and Cawkwells in Auckland in the 1870s (An Auckland whisky actually won a medal at a Vienna International Exhibition of that period). Prohibition and its rise and decline also makes an important and often humorous contribution to the story of New Zealand whisky, and the book culminates with the establishment of two brands of excellent home grown whisky on the market in this country ..." -- Inside front cover.