Corroborates the operational distinction between chronological age and the environmental intensity of maturation. It also connects warehouse variation to barrel selection rather than treating age alone as the quality mechanism. Do not infer universal 2% loss, concentration of every component, or automatic single-barrel superiority from adjacent prose.
Rogers follows the statement with Jim Beam's north–south warehouse orientation, climatic differences in evaporation, hotter upper floors, and the selection of exceptional single barrels.
But whisky makers, at least, have never much cared about that, focusing instead on storage conditions—heat and humidity, primarily.
PDF sheet 110
PDF sheet 110
Aging
Fresh September 28–29 audit: all 319 supplied PDF sheets text-read; relevant passage and locator checked. Direct quotation checked against detailed page image. Do not infer universal 2% loss, concentration of every component, or automatic single-barrel superiority from adjacent prose.
Evidence
But whisky makers, at least, have never much cared about that, focusing instead on storage conditions—heat and humidity, primarily.
Locator
PDF sheet 110 to PDF sheet 110; Aging. Locators refer to the supplied 319-sheet capture, not ebook display pages.
Context
Rogers follows the statement with Jim Beam's north–south warehouse orientation, climatic differences in evaporation, hotter upper floors, and the selection of exceptional single barrels.
Annotation
Corroborates the operational distinction between chronological age and the environmental intensity of maturation. It also connects warehouse variation to barrel selection rather than treating age alone as the quality mechanism.
Do not infer universal 2% loss, concentration of every component, or automatic single-barrel superiority from adjacent prose.
Fresh verification
Passage and locator checked during the September 28–29 full textual review. Quotation also checked against a detailed rendered image; editorial capitalization on sheet 95 is explicitly bracketed. All 319 sheets text-read; visual survey of all sheets and 27 detailed page images recorded separately. Verification confirms source fidelity, not independent truth of every assertion. Existing relations and record identity preserved.