The heat-treatment distinction is useful; exclude the source’s oversimplified thermal and percentage claims.
Factory observation and interview with cooper Paul McLaughlin.
Lee’s cooperage visit distinguishes slower toasting from direct-flame charring and portrays barrel making as skilled production embedded in Kentucky’s wider bourbon economy.
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Paraphrase checked against searchable text and the rendered PDF sheets 35–41 on 2026-08-27; PDF-sheet pagination, not print pagination.
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Paraphrase: Lee’s cooperage visit distinguishes slower toasting from direct-flame charring and portrays barrel making as skilled production embedded in Kentucky’s wider bourbon economy.
Context: Factory observation and interview with cooper Paul McLaughlin.
Boundary: The heat-treatment distinction is useful; exclude the source’s oversimplified thermal and percentage claims.
Locator: 35–41. Numerical coordinates are supplied PDF sheets, not print pages. This passage was checked within the full338-sheet textual and visual review. Verification confirms the attributed paraphrase, not every underlying claim or an independent experiment.
