Supports the brand-continuity boundary while keeping family claims about lost quality and corporate shortcuts explicitly attributed.
The passage introduces the sale as the central family loss and then identifies a process and yeast change through the Van Winkle family's remembered account.
Thompson reports that after the Van Winkle family sold Stitzel-Weller, later corporate owners changed the distilling process; the passage attributes the strongest quality and motive judgments to Julian Van Winkle III.
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