The report says a direct-fire explanation was challenged by similar products in steam-jacket spirit and that furfural was also detected in grain whisky, undermining an exclusive pot-still interpretation.
The Chemistry of Whisky, Revenue Review 5 (1905–1906), reporting Schidrowitz and Kaye, as reproduced by Barker, in Whisky Words: Whisky and Distilling in the United Kingdom through the Victorian Age, ed. Aaron Barker (Carmel, IN: Aaron Barker Publishing, 2015), supplied 277-page PDF, 25–27.
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Barker, ed., Whisky Words, supplied PDF 25–27.
The Chemistry of Whisky, Revenue Review 5 (1905–1906), reporting Schidrowitz and Kaye, as reproduced by Barker
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The Chemistry of Whisky, Revenue Review 5 (1905–1906), reporting Schidrowitz and Kaye, as reproduced by Barker, in Aaron Barker, ed., Whisky Words (2015), supplied 277-page PDF 25–27.
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