Use for historical market structure and supply-lag analysis, not as a current industry snapshot. The chapter supports inventory lag and premiumization, but its no-new-entrants framing excludes small producers discussed in the following chapter; do not treat fourteen plants as a comprehensive national census.
This is a time-bound business interpretation written at the beginning of the modern bourbon resurgence.
Because aged whiskey must be planned years before sale, producers repeatedly faced mismatches between inventory and demand. Cowdery describes postwar growth, bourbon's late-century decline, consolidation, and the early premium and small-distiller revival visible by 2004.
Chapter 7, “The Elusive Bourbon Renaissance”
Chapter 7, “The Elusive Bourbon Renaissance”
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