A legal whiskey category records a negotiated settlement among contemporary producers, regulators, market interests, and exceptions; it does not by itself prove that historical practice was uniform.
A modern statute can still create a useful enforceable identity; the point is to separate present legal definition from origin history.
The 2013 Tennessee whiskey definition selected Bourbon-like rules, in-state requirements, charcoal filtration, and a narrow existing-producer exception after a plural regional history.
Created from the complete 457-sheet textual and visual review of Hannush. Source-level synthesis is verified; maturity remains Developing until independent corroboration broadens the evidence base.
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Reasoning
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Provenance
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Maturity checklist
Hannush Source Audit — 28 September 2026
The historical exception concerns maple-charcoal filtration, not exemption from the entire Tennessee whiskey standard. Historical interpretation does not establish current operative law.
The supplied capture lacks endnotes, bibliography and index, and has confirmed interior gaps. All available457 sheets were read; this is not full-source completion. Fresh source review and limitations