Perrine-Reigler — Old Fashioned variations mix modular design with an unqualified origin story

Annotation

Reuse the modular-form evidence. Corroborate the origin story independently before publication and preserve uncertainty where the historical record is contested.

Challenges Claims

Citations

PerrineReigler2016MoreKentucky — PDF sheets 25–29

Context

The recipe family is direct practitioner evidence; the historical attribution is a separate secondary-source claim.

Excerpt ID

868

Excerpt Text

The section presents the Old Fashioned as a flexible bourbon, sugar, bitters, and water form, while also repeating the Pendennis Club origin story without evidentiary qualification.

Literature Notes

More Kentucky Bourbon Cocktails — full-source synthesis

Locator End

PDF sheet 29

Locator Start

PDF sheet 25

Locator Type

Page

Originating Working Notes

Page (text)

Source

No access

Source Section

Old Fashioneds

Supports Claims

Bourbon cocktails are best explained as flexible forms, not fixed recipesPractitioner histories require claim-level corroboration

Tags

Cocktails and ServiceAmerican Whiskey History and Culture

Verification Notes

Verified against extracted text and rendered PDF sheets 25–29 on 2026-08-27.

Verification Status

Verified

Evidence

The section presents the Old Fashioned as a flexible bourbon, sugar, bitters, and water form, while also repeating the Pendennis Club origin story without evidentiary qualification.

Locator

Locator type: Page

Start: PDF sheet 25

End: PDF sheet 29

Source section: Old Fashioneds

Context

The recipe family is direct practitioner evidence; the historical attribution is a separate secondary-source claim.

Annotation

Reuse the modular-form evidence. Corroborate the origin story independently before publication and preserve uncertainty where the historical record is contested.

Verification

Status: Verified

Verified against extracted text and rendered PDF sheets 25–29 on 2026-08-27.