This report generates hypotheses; it does not isolate regional origin, tree age or treatment. Replication, randomization and matched controls are not reported. Wood age is not whisky age.
Numbered glasses concealed identities, but Broom knew Scottish oak was included. Treatments included chips, heads, full casks, different toast levels, new make and re-casked whisky. The within-tree experiment used wood fractions in bell jars.
Broom describes a blind tasting of varied Scottish-oak treatments and samples made with wood from different radial ages of one tree. He reports differing sensory impressions and tentatively proposes a Scottish-oak signature.
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Scottish oak project
Fresh audit against PDF247 of the347-sheet local mirror;2022 publication verified onPDF345. This verifies fidelity to the cited passage, not the underlying claim or native attachment bytes. This report generates hypotheses; it does not isolate regional origin, tree age or treatment. Replication, randomization and matched controls are not reported. Wood age is not whisky age.
Source and scope
Broom describes a blind tasting of varied Scottish-oak treatments and samples made with wood from different radial ages of one tree. He reports differing sensory impressions and tentatively proposes a Scottish-oak signature.
Location and context
Dave Broom, A Sense of Place (Mitchell Beazley,2022), PDF247 in the347-sheet supplied copy. Numbered glasses concealed identities, but Broom knew Scottish oak was included. Treatments included chips, heads, full casks, different toast levels, new make and re-casked whisky. The within-tree experiment used wood fractions in bell jars.
Interpretation limits
This report generates hypotheses; it does not isolate regional origin, tree age or treatment. Replication, randomization and matched controls are not reported. Wood age is not whisky age.
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