Paul Pacult

As America’s Spirits Guru, F. Paul Pacult is publisher/editor of F. Paul Pacult’s Spirit Journal; contributing editor for Beverage Dynamics and creator of the groundbreaking iWhiskey App. Through Spirit Journal, Inc., he consults widely to the beverage alcohol industry. He also hosts the critically acclaimed monthly tasting series in New York City, the Masters Series at Keens Steakhouse, now in its 15th year. He is a founding partner of the award-winning training company Beverage Alcohol Resource, LLC (BAR) and a founding partner in the newly formed beverage competition company Ultimate Beverage Challenge LLC.

He is the author of five books: Kindred Spirits 2: 2,400 Reviews of Whiskey, Brandy, Vodka, Tequila, Rum, Gin, and Liqueurs from F. Paul Pacult’s Spirit Journal 2000-2007 (Spirit Journal, Inc., 2008); A Double Scotch: How Chivas Regal and The Glenlivet Became Global Icons (Wiley, 2005), the best-selling American Still Life: The Jim Beam Story and the Making of the World’s #1 Bourbon (Wiley, 2003) as well as Kindred Spirits (Hyperion, 1997) and The Beer Essentials (Hyperion, 1997).

From 1982 to 2009, he contributed to an array of publications, including Playboy, Wine & Spirits, Cheers, Connoisseur, MarketWatch. Travel & Leisure, Men’s Journal, the New York Times Magazine, Delta Sky, and Wine Enthusiast Magazine. He produced and co-hosted two nationally syndicated radio shows, The Happy Hour with Paul Pacult and Gary Regan (1997-1999) and Paul Pacult’s Good Life (2000) and has appeared in two landmark History Channel documentaries. For a decade starting in 2000, he was judging director of the San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

Paul won an award for wine journalism excellence in 2001 from The Academy of Wine Communications. He is the only journalist in the world to concurrently be a life member and Master of Keepers of the Quaich whisky society (Edinburgh, Scotland), a life member of Kentucky’s Bourbon Hall of Fame, and a life member of France’s Company of Armagnac Musketeers.

F. Paul Pacult’s Spirit Journal Since 1991, F. Paul Pacult’s Spirit Journal has been the most trusted newsletter on spirits, wine, and beer in America. Published quarterly, F. Paul Pacult’s Spirit Journal does not accept advertising and, as such, renders unbiased reviews and ratings that are considered the gold standard within the alcoholic beverage industry. To subscribe to F. Paul Pacult’s Spirit Journal, log on to www.spiritjournal.com.