Valuable for process reconstruction. Keep historical meanings of sour mash, rectification, and leaching separate from modern statutory usage. Audit2026-09-28: The account transfers fermented mash; do not equate that with sterile modern backset or a universal no-added-yeast technique.
The description is near-contemporary process evidence embedded in the George A. Dickel business history.
Hannush reconstructs Cascade Hollow as using natural sour-mash fermentation, steam-heated wooden stills, copper redistillation, and prolonged sugar-maple charcoal leaching. The sequence shows that historical Tennessee practice involved several linked stages rather than one defining filter.
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PDF sheet 225; displayed ebook page 208
McLin Davis and the Cascade Hollow process
Fresh text comparison2026-09-28: PDF sheets225–227; extracted on-screen ebook labels208–210. Physical PDF-sheet locator is canonical. Full457-sheet visual layout survey completed; contact sheets are not fine-detail proof. Capture lacks endnotes, bibliography and index; this verifies representation of a secondary source, not its primary evidence. The account transfers fermented mash; do not equate that with sterile modern backset or a universal no-added-yeast technique.
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