Annotation

Treat as a screening platform, not a direct scale model of industrial distillation.

Challenges Claims

Citations

Verges et al. 2023 — lab-scale bourbon — Chicago

Context

The small output is designed for controlled comparisons rather than commercial representativeness.

Excerpt ID

2029

Excerpt Text

The conclusion reports approximately500mL final distillate and stage-specific sampling, but the second-pass methods specify300mL hearts. Output volume remains internally inconsistent.

Literature Notes

A reproducible research-scale bourbon process — Verges et al.

Locator End

Locator Start

9

Locator Type

Page

Originating Working Notes

Page (text)

Source

No access

Source Section

Discussion

Supports Claims

Tags

BourbonDistillation

Verification Notes

September27 full main article and supplementaryTableS1 audited; author claims qualified against actual design and contradictory methods.

Verification Status

Verified

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Evidence

The conclusion reports approximately500mL final distillate and stage-specific sampling, but the second-pass methods specify300mL hearts. Output volume remains internally inconsistent.

Locator and context

Locator: Page 9

Source section: Discussion

Context: The small output is designed for controlled comparisons rather than commercial representativeness.

Interpretation and caution

Treat as a screening platform, not a direct scale model of industrial distillation.

Verification

Paraphrase and locator checked against the complete locally preserved source during the 2026-09-05 full-source pass.