Carson, Gerald. The Social History of Bourbon: An Unhurried Account of Our Star-Spangled American Drink. Foreword by Mike Veach. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. Originally published 1963.
The Pure Food era dispute over straight whiskey, blends, neutral spirits, labeling, and additives culminated in administrative definitions that shaped modern identity standards.
Gerald Carson, The Social History of Bourbon: An Unhurried Account of Our Star-Spangled American Drink (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,2010; text originally1963), PDF sheets 178–186 (supplied303-sheet screenshot PDF; not print pagination).
Gerald Carson, The Social History of Bourbon: An Unhurried Account of Our Star-Spangled American Drink (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,2010; text originally1963), PDF sheets 178–186 (supplied303-sheet screenshot PDF; not print pagination).
PDF sheet 186
PDF sheet 178
Carson, Social History of Bourbon, PDF sheets 178–186.
Chapter 15 — But—What Is Whiskey?
2026-09-29: corrected opening-only locator to the chapter-level paraphrase range. Carson's narrative is historical, not present law; legal identity does not itself rank sensory merit. Opening178 uses a fictional character. Ready only for attributed representation of this source, not clearance of all historical claims.
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