Use this as source-evaluation evidence. It explains both the book's access to industry testimony and the need to distinguish independent reporting from company-supplied material.
This disclosure precedes the book's production, history, producer, bottle-guide, cocktail, and tourism chapters.
Givens thanks bourbon companies and their media representatives for information and images, named master distillers for their time and knowledge, the University of Louisville's industry oral histories, DISCUS for research assistance, and named mixologists for expertise and recipes.
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Crosswalk checked 2026-09-16 against supplied 2007 text. Use the named section or distinctive passage, not assumed print pages. Internal prior retrieval: PDF sheet 8–PDF sheet 8. Prior audit: Text and locator checked against the searchable PDF and the rendered page image during the complete 251-sheet review. Paraphrase avoids carrying OCR artifacts or unverified wording.
Capture evidence faithfully. Select one Source, record a usable locator, and preserve enough surrounding context to prevent misquotation.
Evidence
Paste the exact quote, paraphrase, statistic, definition, or source claim into Excerpt Text. Use Excerpt Type to distinguish quotation from interpretation.
Location and context
Record Locator Type, Locator Start, Locator End when needed, and Source Section. Explain the surrounding argument in Context.
Annotation
In Annotation, state why this evidence matters. Add approved Tags for retrieval and connect it to every relevant Literature Note.