This is the Academy reviewer's criticism, not a claim Meehan makes about his own reliability. PDF435 contains the spent-mash/live-yeast and Alfred Eaton founder assertions; 436–438 cover historical maturation and bond-law chronology; 441–442 give category rules. Consult the Literature Note's bounded primary-source checks before reuse.
The section is written for bartenders as a concise orientation rather than as a specialist historical or regulatory study.
Researcher assessment: Meehan's whiskey primer requires correction or corroboration concerning sour mash, Tennessee-whiskey origins, bourbon naming and state labels, Bottled-in-Bond chronology, maturation and category definitions.
PDF sheet 442
PDF sheet 435
Whisk(e)y — History and American Whiskey
October 1 fresh audit against the sequential 710-sheet text and individual-visual review. Canonical Source, Literature Note and existing relations retained. This is the Academy reviewer's criticism, not a claim Meehan makes about his own reliability. PDF435 contains the spent-mash/live-yeast and Alfred Eaton founder assertions; 436–438 cover historical maturation and bond-law chronology; 441–442 give category rules. Consult the Literature Note's bounded primary-source checks before reuse.
Evidence retained from the complete 710-sheet textual and visual review of Meehan's Bartender Manual.
Evidence
Researcher assessment: Meehan's whiskey primer requires correction or corroboration concerning sour mash, Tennessee-whiskey origins, bourbon naming and state labels, Bottled-in-Bond chronology, maturation and category definitions.
Location and context
Source section: Whisk(e)y — History and American Whiskey
Locator: PDF sheets 435–442
The section is written for bartenders as a concise orientation rather than as a specialist historical or regulatory study.
Annotation
This is the Academy reviewer's criticism, not a claim Meehan makes about his own reliability. PDF435 contains the spent-mash/live-yeast and Alfred Eaton founder assertions; 436–438 cover historical maturation and bond-law chronology; 441–442 give category rules. Consult the Literature Note's bounded primary-source checks before reuse.