Carlton, Carla Harris. Barrel Strength Bourbon: The Explosive Growth of America’s Whiskey. Clerisy Press, 2017. First edition.
The narrative distinguishes legitimate rectification from deceptive adulteration, discusses Old Forester's bottled branding, bottled-in-bond, the 1906 law and Taft's 1909 decision, then temperance, Prohibition, repeal, wartime production and postwar demand. Screens 52–53 reproduce the 1964 concurrent resolution recognizing bourbon as a distinctive US product.
Carla Harris Carlton, Barrel Strength Bourbon: The Explosive Growth of America’s Whiskey (Clerisy Press, 2017), Chapter 1 — rectification, federal regulation and repeal, supplied PDF screens 48–53.
Original PDF screen 53
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Carlton, Barrel Strength Bourbon, supplied PDF screens 48–53.
Chapter 1 — rectification, federal regulation and repeal
Ready as a source locator, not independent claim verification. E-reader capture screens, not print pagination. Not sufficient legal authority: the medical-only framing of legal Prohibition activity, six licenses versus ten on screen 91, and historical production versus sale are conflated. Screen 51 places February 1933 under FDR. Do not publish these as settled facts. Use original laws for legal effect and dates.
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Carla Harris Carlton, Barrel Strength Bourbon: The Explosive Growth of America’s Whiskey (Clerisy Press, 2017), Chapter 1 — rectification, federal regulation and repeal, supplied PDF screens 48–53.
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Bibliography: Carlton, Carla Harris. Barrel Strength Bourbon: The Explosive Growth of America’s Whiskey. Clerisy Press, 2017. First edition.
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Not sufficient legal authority: the medical-only framing of legal Prohibition activity, six licenses versus ten on screen 91, and historical production versus sale are conflated. Screen 51 places February 1933 under FDR. Do not publish these as settled facts. Use original laws for legal effect and dates.