As the Bourbon Authority for the Kentucky Derby Museum, 35-year-old Fred Minnick enjoys an annual classroom audience of more than 25,000, and his whiskey books are sold in the museum's 250,000-consumers-a-year gift shop. A Wall Street Journal-best-selling author for his book Camera Boy, Minnick writes the drinks column for Parade.com, the award-winning American Whiskey column for Tasting Panel Magazine, the Toasting the Hunt column for Covey Rise, and regularly contributes to Bourbon Review, Caviar Affair, USA Today, Whisky Advocate, and Whisky Magazine. Liquor.com named Minnick's recently released Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch & Irish Whiskey (Potomac Books) one of the Best Drinks Books of 2013, while Huffington Post, Forbes, American Way, SeriousEats.com, Washington Post, Esquire, New York Observer, NPR, and Crain's Business Journal praised Minnick for writing such an important history.
