Useful as a teaching structure, not a universal production specification. The diagram combines diverse categories and presents specific times, still arrangements, cask types, chill filtration and coloring as broad defaults. Its American column omits pot-distilled alternatives discussed elsewhere in the book. The cereal prose treats variety effects as generally negligible while acknowledging mouthfeel claims; this is not experimental evidence against grain influence. The water-use estimate of about 50 L per litre excludes cooling and cleaning and is the author's estimate, not a verified resource-use benchmark. Academy use: build a sourced comparison with explicit optional steps and category exceptions rather than reproduce this chart as authoritative.
Tristan Stephenson, The Curious Bartender: An Odyssey of Malt, Bourbon & Rye Whiskies (2014). Preserved PDF screens 96–113; displayed book pages 44–51.
The water and cereal discussion leads to a two-screen production comparison (PDF 112–113) covering malt whisky, Irish whiskey, grain whisky, and bourbon/Tennessee/rye. Rows trace grain, malting, milling, mashing, fermentation, distillation, filtration, maturation, strength adjustment and coloring.
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Fresh text and rendered-layout audit; production charts on 112–113 individually inspected. Verified is source fidelity, not blanket technical validation.
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Evidence
The water and cereal discussion leads to a two-screen production comparison (PDF 112–113) covering malt whisky, Irish whiskey, grain whisky, and bourbon/Tennessee/rye. Rows trace grain, malting, milling, mashing, fermentation, distillation, filtration, maturation, strength adjustment and coloring.
Tristan Stephenson, The Curious Bartender: An Odyssey of Malt, Bourbon & Rye Whiskies (Ryland Peters & Small, 2014), supplied PDF pp. 96–113.
Interpretation and verification
Useful as a teaching structure, not a universal production specification. The diagram combines diverse categories and presents specific times, still arrangements, cask types, chill filtration and coloring as broad defaults. Its American column omits pot-distilled alternatives discussed elsewhere in the book. The cereal prose treats variety effects as generally negligible while acknowledging mouthfeel claims; this is not experimental evidence against grain influence. The water-use estimate of about 50 L per litre excludes cooling and cleaning and is the author's estimate, not a verified resource-use benchmark. Academy use: build a sourced comparison with explicit optional steps and category exceptions rather than reproduce this chart as authoritative.
Fresh text and rendered-layout audit; production charts on 112–113 individually inspected. Verified is source fidelity, not blanket technical validation. Displayed book pages: 44–51.
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