Arnold, Dave. Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Arnold reports that milk washing stripped too much oak flavor and color from aged spirits.
Dave Arnold, Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014), PDF sheet 348.
Dave Arnold, Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014), PDF sheet 348.
PDF sheet 348
PDF sheet 348
Arnold, Liquid Intelligence, PDF sheet 348.
Washing — Milk Washing
Fresh audit 2026-10-01: 2014 first-edition metadata and physical-PDF locator checked against completed reading. PDF 348: negative milk-washing result is explicitly Arnold's sensory judgment, not categorical proof that washing always destroys whiskey quality.
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Milk washing and aged-spirit character.
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