Rothbaum, Noah. The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit. New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2025.
Small proof changes produced perceptibly different bourbon during an Old Forester proof-setting trial.
Noah Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit (New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2025), 51.
Noah Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit (New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2025), 51.
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Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible, 51.
Whiskey 101 — Proofing Down and Bottling
Whole supplied-copy audit: complete PDF sheets 129; retained partial sheets 128. A reported Old Forester tasting anecdote, not a controlled blind trial, universal dilution direction, or demonstrated threshold. Prior record retained for provenance: Verified 2026-08-29 against the complete edition: displayed p. 51 = complete PDF sheets 128–129. The existing partial-file sheet 128 locator remains recoverable.
Source and locator
Displayed p. 51; complete supplied PDF sheets 129. Retained partial-copy locator: sheets 128. Section: Whiskey 101 — Proofing Down and Bottling.
Reusable citation
Noah Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit (New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2025), 51.
Evidence boundary
A reported Old Forester tasting anecdote, not a controlled blind trial, universal dilution direction, or demonstrated threshold.
Source-fidelity verification does not establish independent factual accuracy. The existing linked Excerpt contains the bounded paraphrase and assessment.
Placement
Existing claim, source, literature-note and use-status relations are preserved. This review does not independently verify public-page placement.