A short and accessible history of rye whiskey's founding, floundering, and current flourishing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This book takes the reader on a wide-ranging tour that includes:

- The Whiskey Rebellion and America's earliest frontier distillers
- Henry Clay Frick and Andrew Mellon
- The role of Pittsburgh robber barons in developing the rye industry
- The rebirth of craft distilling in the twentieth century.