Risen’s tasting panel and sample-supply disclosures

Annotation

Use to distinguish panel-informed consumer criticism from blind, randomized or replicated sensory research. Industry sample access may influence coverage but does not itself prove improper influence. Author-panel disagreement at PDF302 is a separate example. No outreach is authorized by the book’s invitation to email.

Challenges Claims

Citations

Risen’s tasting panel and sample-supply disclosures — PDF screens 347–349

Context

Concluding acknowledgments after the 332 tasting accounts; these disclose contributors and access rather than a formal sensory-study protocol.

Excerpt ID

3724

Excerpt Text

The acknowledgments describe a core tasting panel meeting weekly in the publishers’ offices and contributions from novice-to-expert tasters. Merchants helped acquire bottles, and distilleries and their representatives supplied sample bottles. Eight core panel members are profiled.

Literature Notes

Single Malt Whisky — Full-Source Literature Note

Locator End

349

Locator Start

347

Locator Type

Page

Originating Working Notes

Page (text)

Source

No access

Source Section

Acknowledgments and core tasting panel

Supports Claims

Tags

Verification Notes

Checked against sequentially read supplied PDF screens and rendered pages; screen locators differ from printed pagination. Canonical attachment/local copy hash matches. Verified means source fidelity only; complete-edition collation and browser rendering remain open.

Verification Status

Verified

Evidence

The acknowledgments describe a core tasting panel meeting weekly in the publishers’ offices and contributions from novice-to-expert tasters. Merchants helped acquire bottles, and distilleries and their representatives supplied sample bottles. Eight core panel members are profiled.

Location and context

Supplied PDF screens347–349; Acknowledgments and core tasting panel.

Concluding acknowledgments after the 332 tasting accounts; these disclose contributors and access rather than a formal sensory-study protocol.

Researcher assessment

Use to distinguish panel-informed consumer criticism from blind, randomized or replicated sensory research. Industry sample access may influence coverage but does not itself prove improper influence. Author-panel disagreement at PDF302 is a separate example. No outreach is authorized by the book’s invitation to email.

Provenance

No access · Single Malt Whisky — Full-Source Literature Note

Verification is limited to faithful representation of this supplied copy. This record does not certify technical accuracy, current specifications or publication of an Academy lesson.