Word: whiteoak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fresh and ripe yeast to make a "sour" mash, different from most (fresh yeast only) bourbons. He let it ferment 24 hours longer than ordinary Dourbons, then leached it through vats of sugar-maple charcoal to purify it, and finally aged it four to six years in new, charred whiteoak barrels...
...WHITEOAK BROTHERS (307 pp.)-Mozo de la Roche - Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...Archbishop, among other notable books, but for fans of Mazo de la Roche, the real importance of 1927 is that it saw the first of her Jalna novels. Now, 15 Jalna novels later, Author de la Roche has produced another volume in her indefatigable chronicle of the Whiteoak family of Ontario...
...latest installment of the Jalna story has special appeal, because when Author de la Roche first began slicing the Whiteoak loaf it never occurred to her that it was going to have to last for a quarter of a century. Now she is obliged to do some fine cutting off the butt end. The Whiteoak Brothers is about Jalna in 1923, but as there have already been eight books about Jalna since 1923, De la Roche fans will have a grand time chuckling over the brothers' efforts to evade destinies that have long since been translated into 14 languages...
Charmer from Yorkshire. Brothers starts with Renny Whiteoak, master of Jalna, firmly in his seat, or rather his saddle, because Renny is the type of man who only gets off his horse when he is watching a horse show. Uncles Ernest and Nicholas are still getting aged and shaky; Grandma Adeline (who died some books ago) is lively as a cricket at the age of 98. Brothers Eden (22), Piers (19), Finch (15), Wakefield (8) are still in the process of growing into the well-known adults they have long since become : their habits of twisting each other...