A batch account is internally inconsistent if its reported outputs contain more absolute alcohol than its inputs, after inventory changes and measurement basis are considered.
A closing balance does not prove sensory quality or safety. Small discrepancies may reflect measurement uncertainty, sampling and temperature correction.
Volume and ABV must be combined on a consistent basis. Product, recycle, residue, retained inventory and losses belong within an explicit boundary. The handbook's pp. 180–181 example fails this check when its ranges are treated as one run; this makes closure a useful editorial and quality-control test.
Original synthesis from full-source Batch Distillation review; concept-level duplicate searches performed. Developing, not an independently validated operating procedure.
Atomic Idea
A batch account is internally inconsistent if its reported outputs contain more absolute alcohol than its inputs, after inventory changes and measurement basis are considered.
Reasoning
Volume and ABV must be combined on a consistent basis. Product, recycle, residue, retained inventory and losses belong within an explicit boundary. The handbook's pp. 180–181 example fails this check when its ranges are treated as one run; this makes closure a useful editorial and quality-control test.
Boundary
A closing balance does not prove sensory quality or safety. Small discrepancies may reflect measurement uncertainty, sampling and temperature correction.
Evidence And Connections
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