Useful as a broad connoisseur-history arc, not as proof of individual dates or the source's dated sales percentage.
The chapter opens with early rye history and closes with a revival narrative. Intervening sheets are largely brand profiles.
Hacker frames rye as an early American whiskey associated with colonial grain availability, George Washington, eastern parlors, and western saloons, then describes its late-twentieth-century role as a small sipping-and-cocktail category followed by renewed twenty-first-century attention.
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Rye Whiskey Rides Again
Legacy partial local sheets 34 and 46 are retained for citation stability; the opening and closing passages were cross-verified in the complete 808-sheet edition at local sheets 368 and 395 on 2026-08-28.
Verified paraphrase from one canonical Source.
Evidence
Rye moved from early prominence through late-twentieth-century contraction to revival; full paraphrase is stored in Excerpt Text.
Location and context
Local PDF sheets 34 and 46, opening and closing of “Rye Whiskey Rides Again.”
Annotation
Use as a broad cultural arc. The dated sales percentage and intervening brand profiles are excluded.