Not Your Average Joe | Joseph W. Hobbs | Tim Smith

Not Your Average Joe: A Biography of Joseph William Hobbs (1891–1963), Whisky Entrepreneur by Tim Smith is a compelling English-language whisky biography about an influential but often under-recognised figure in the twentieth-century whisky world.

Joseph William Hobbs played an important role in the international whisky trade and operated at the crossroads of entrepreneurship, politics, changing alcohol laws and commercial opportunity. Tim Smith shows how Hobbs became a key figure during a period shaped by wars, economic crisis, new markets and shifting power structures within the whisky industry.

Drawing on extensive historical research, personal correspondence and archival material, Smith reconstructs the life and business world of Hobbs. The book offers not only the portrait of a whisky entrepreneur, but also a broader view of the American and Scottish whisky trade during a time of major change.

Not Your Average Joe is especially interesting for whisky lovers, collectors, historians and readers who want to look beyond distilleries, tasting notes and bottles. It is a valuable historical whisky book about vision, persistence, business instinct and the people behind the trade.

Book Details
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Author: Tim Smith
ISBN / barcode: 9781805144250
Weight: 0.8 kg
Subject: Joseph William Hobbs, whisky biography, whisky trade, entrepreneurship, Scottish and American whisky history