A legally permitted maximum for an additive, flavoring component, or treatment should be treated as a boundary condition, not as evidence that the maximum is sensorially desirable.
The sensory optimum depends on material, matrix, proof, target, and audience; one practitioner example cannot establish a universal threshold.
Livermore’s example shows that a permitted proportion may far exceed the level at which another component overwhelms the whiskey. Formulation therefore needs ascending sensory trials below the legal ceiling.
Synthesized from the Don Livermore research cluster; retain as a testable workflow claim rather than a universal sensory law.
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