Bryson, Lew. American Whiskey Master Class: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding Bourbon, Rye, and Other American Whiskeys. Beverly, MA: The Harvard Common Press, 2025.
The same mash bill can produce different whiskeys because other production variables interact.
Lew Bryson, American Whiskey Master Class (2025), chap. 5, “There’s Magic in the Mash,” “That’s the Same Whiskey.”.
Bryson, Lew. American Whiskey Master Class: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding Bourbon, Rye, and Other American Whiskeys. Beverly, MA: The Harvard Common Press, 2025. chap. 5, “There’s Magic in the Mash,” “That’s the Same Whiskey.”.
chap. 5, “There’s Magic in the Mash,” “That’s the Same Whiskey.”
Bryson 2025, chap. 5, “There’s Magic in the Mash,” “That’s the Same Whiskey.”
chap. 5, “There’s Magic in the Mash,” “That’s the Same Whiskey.”
2026-09-16 locator audit: reader locator checked against the supplied 368-sheet ebook. Internal retrieval: PDF sheets 105; these are not printed page numbers. Supersedes legacy locator 105–105. Chapter/section identification is verified; this does not independently validate every historical, legal, or scientific claim in the passage. Earlier verification notes retained below: Bibliographic metadata and locator verified against the uploaded PDF; rendered PDF p. 105 visually checked on 2026-08-24.
Source and locator
Bryson, American Whiskey Master Class, PDF p. 105, “That’s the Same Whiskey.”
Supported use
Supports the boundary that a shared mash bill does not make two finished whiskeys identical.
Verification checklist
September 29 source audit
Checked against the supplied 2025 edition, 368 PDF sheets: PDF sheets 105–105, chap. 5, “There’s Magic in the Mash,” “That’s the Same Whiskey.”. These are digital-file coordinates, not printed pagination. The section locator in the formatted citation remains usable.
Source fidelity is verified; secondary-source claims retain the limitations in the Literature Note.
Evidence: 