Useful for the demand-side history of American whiskey. Industry data and contemporary reporting are still needed to establish scale and chronology.
This is a practitioner synthesis of the network of bars, mentors, products, and service standards associated with the modern cocktail revival.
Meehan links late-twentieth-century fresh-ingredient classicism, connoisseurship, single-barrel and small-batch bourbon launches, and single-malt imports to the renewed visibility of brown spirits.
PDF sheet 45
PDF sheet 41
A Brief History of the American Bar — Revival
October 1 fresh audit against the sequential 710-sheet text and individual-visual review. Canonical Source, Literature Note and existing relations retained. Evidence and locator recover the stated practitioner account; underlying historical or causal claims are not independently verified by this check.
Evidence retained from the complete 710-sheet textual and visual review of Meehan's Bartender Manual.
Evidence
Meehan links late-twentieth-century fresh-ingredient classicism, connoisseurship, single-barrel and small-batch bourbon launches, and single-malt imports to the renewed visibility of brown spirits.
Location and context
Source section: A Brief History of the American Bar — Revival
Locator: PDF sheets 41–45
This is a practitioner synthesis of the network of bars, mentors, products, and service standards associated with the modern cocktail revival.
Annotation
Useful for the demand-side history of American whiskey. Industry data and contemporary reporting are still needed to establish scale and chronology.