The experiment used Scotch new make and uncharred American oak, not finished bourbon in new charred barrels. Fresh audit: Preserve Scotch new make, uncharred American oak, unequal observation durations, extraction/oxidation/evaporation and sampling ullage. The plotted sweet descriptor does not support a uniform sweetness increase across all trials.
Evaluation of barrel size and the assumption that high surface-area-to-volume ratio compresses maturation time.
Miller's cited comparison used 6 L casks sampled through 24 months and 180 L casks sampled through 60 months. Small-cask chemistry and sensory profiles did not reproduce a simple time-compressed standard-cask trajectory; the design does not establish a universal acceleration ratio.
PDF sheet 322 / printed p. 314
PDF sheet 320 / printed p. 312
Chapter 8 — Maturation
September 28 fresh audit: passage and locator checked against the supplied 533-sheet PDF. Preserve Scotch new make, uncharred American oak, unequal observation durations, extraction/oxidation/evaporation and sampling ullage. The plotted sweet descriptor does not support a uniform sweetness increase across all trials.
Verified evidence record from the complete review of Whisky Science: A Condensed Distillation.
Evidence
Miller's cited comparison used 6 L casks sampled through 24 months and 180 L casks sampled through 60 months. Small-cask chemistry and sensory profiles did not reproduce a simple time-compressed standard-cask trajectory; the design does not establish a universal acceleration ratio.
Locator
- Section: Chapter 8 — Maturation
- Start: PDF sheet 320 / printed p. 312
- End: PDF sheet 322 / printed p. 314
Context
Evaluation of barrel size and the assumption that high surface-area-to-volume ratio compresses maturation time.
Annotation
The experiment used Scotch new make and uncharred American oak, not finished bourbon in new charred barrels.
Supports
Small barrels accelerate contact but do not reproduce standard-barrel maturation
September 28 audit
Preserve Scotch new make, uncharred American oak, unequal observation durations, extraction/oxidation/evaporation and sampling ullage. The plotted sweet descriptor does not support a uniform sweetness increase across all trials.