Carlton 2017 — Chapter 3 — From Mash to Masterpiece

Carlton, Carla Harris. Barrel Strength Bourbon: The Explosive Growth of America’s Whiskey. Clerisy Press, 2017. First edition.

The production tour follows mash bills, grain preparation, water, backset, fermentation, yeast, column/pot distillation, maturation, cooperage and closures. Brown-Forman's cooperage account covers seasoning, assembling staves, steaming, toasting and charring, heads, hoops, bung hole and leak checking. Jelinek's cork-stopper account adds packaging and apprenticeship context.

Carla Harris Carlton, Barrel Strength Bourbon: The Explosive Growth of America’s Whiskey (Clerisy Press, 2017), Chapter 3 — From Mash to Masterpiece, supplied PDF screens 100–139.

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Carlton, Barrel Strength Bourbon, supplied PDF screens 100–139.

Chapter 3 — From Mash to Masterpiece

Ready as a source locator, not independent claim verification. E-reader capture screens, not print pagination. Do not use this popular overview as operating instructions. Flag fixed first-five-percent heads simplification, the glossary’s methane wording, fixed barrel-flavor percentages, limestone generalizations and new make called bourbon. Cork and barrels come from different oak types. Closure dates and production figures are historical. September 29 fresh review: Fresh visual review: wooden fermenter108; copper equipment112; stave assembly114; barrel charring126; head charring128; inspection130; cork bark/closures/assembly133–137. These illustrate stages, not specifications. Design for/by Ability naming differs between prose and caption.