Strong primary evidence for the operational constraint; commercial and memoir incentives warrant careful attribution.
This is the founder’s firsthand account of constructing a launch product from available mature inventory.
Weaver describes selecting and blending sourced barrels while recognizing that whiskey kept changing in wood after samples were drawn, and she explains that immediate product needs had to be balanced against the years required to mature future supply.
PDF sheet 203
Selecting and sourcing whiskey
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Weaver describes selecting and blending sourced barrels while recognizing that whiskey kept changing in wood after samples were drawn, and she explains that immediate product needs had to be balanced against the years required to mature future supply.
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Source section: Selecting and sourcing whiskey
Context
This is the founder’s firsthand account of constructing a launch product from available mature inventory.
Annotation
Strong primary evidence for the operational constraint; commercial and memoir incentives warrant careful attribution.
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