Bryson, Lew. 2021. “Turns Out Rye Whiskey Isn’t an American Creation After All.” The Daily Beast. December 2, 2021.
Reports April and October 1648 Downing–Winthrop correspondence concerning a still, a German rye-spirit recipe, and claimed distilling activity.
Lew Bryson, “Turns Out Rye Whiskey Isn’t an American Creation After All,” The Daily Beast, December 2, 2021.
Lew Bryson. 2021. “Turns Out Rye Whiskey Isn’t an American Creation After All.” The Daily Beast, December 2, 2021. https://www.thedailybeast.com/turns-out-rye-whiskey-isnt-an-american-creation-after-all/.
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Article paragraphs 10–13
Bryson 2021, paras. 10–13
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