Wall Street Journal-bestselling author Fred Minnick writes for Whisky Magazine, Whisky Advocate, Scientific American, Parade.com and many others. In 2012, his Tasting Panel “American Whiskey” column earned the prestigious APEX Award for Editorial Excellence, and he was named a finalist to the Louis Roederer International Wine Writer of the Year in the Emerging Category and the Pink Lady International Food Photographer of the Year. He wrote the award-winning and critically acclaimed Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch & Irish Whiskey, winner of the 2013 ForeWord Reviews “Women’s Studies” book of the year. Minnick’s Iraq War memoir, Camera Boy: An Army Journalist’s War in Iraq (Hellgate Press, 2009), became a Wall Street Journal Best-Seller. Based in Louisville, Kentucky—the heart of Bourbon Country—Minnick regularly judges cocktail contests and serves as a judge on the World Whiskies Awards and the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Minnick is the “Bourbon Authority” for the Kentucky Derby Museum and is a member of the American Society of Journalists & Authors as well as the Author’s Guild. Minnick is also an accomplished photographer and is a former finalist for the Pink Lady International Food Photographer of the Year. But most importantly, he wears ascots.