Important boundary: economic recovery is subordinate to sensory acceptability and product identity. Commercial neutral-spirit practice differs from a consumer whiskey blend. Fresh full-page audit: PDF182's16% whiskey is a proof-gallon fraction, not liquid-volume fraction. This is attributed neutral-spirit formulation; no general permission to recover defective fractions follows.
Opening blend design example and yield logic.
The author combines a middle cut with selected late-heads and early-tails fractions and neutral spirit to meet a product target, while explicitly noting that not every heads or tails fraction is suitable for return.
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Fresh supplied-copy audit: all224 physical PDF pages read as text and individually rendered; linked passage and context rechecked. Verified means faithful source attribution, not technical correctness. PDF182's16% whiskey is a proof-gallon fraction, not liquid-volume fraction. This is attributed neutral-spirit formulation; no general permission to recover defective fractions follows.
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