First-person practitioner recollection. These pages identify fall 2007, not a documented 2007–2009 shortage interval; scale, duration and independent causation remain unverified.
The evidence appears in a recipe-lineage discussion from the bartender's point of view.
Meehan recalls that he and John Deragon developed the Newark for PDT in fall 2007 while suppliers held back dwindling rye stocks amid city demand for classic whiskey cocktails; they used New Jersey apple brandy for their variation.
PDF sheet 534
PDF sheet 532
Brandy Recipes — Newark
October 1 fresh audit against the sequential 710-sheet text and individual-visual review. Canonical Source, Literature Note and existing relations retained. First-person practitioner recollection. These pages identify fall 2007, not a documented 2007–2009 shortage interval; scale, duration and independent causation remain unverified.
Evidence retained from the complete 710-sheet textual and visual review of Meehan's Bartender Manual.
Evidence
Meehan recalls that he and John Deragon developed the Newark for PDT in fall 2007 while suppliers held back dwindling rye stocks amid city demand for classic whiskey cocktails; they used New Jersey apple brandy for their variation.
Location and context
Source section: Brandy Recipes — Newark
Locator: PDF sheets 532–534
The evidence appears in a recipe-lineage discussion from the bartender's point of view.
Annotation
First-person practitioner recollection. These pages identify fall 2007, not a documented 2007–2009 shortage interval; scale, duration and independent causation remain unverified.