Cowdery, Charles K. Bourbon, Strange: Surprising Stories of American Whiskey. Made and Bottled in Kentucky, 2014.
Scarce aged inventory, dismantled plants, and capital-intensive post-Repeal rebuilding.
Charles K. Cowdery, Bourbon, Strange: Surprising Stories of American Whiskey (Made and Bottled in Kentucky, 2014), PDF sheets 85–89.
Charles K. Cowdery, Bourbon, Strange: Surprising Stories of American Whiskey (Made and Bottled in Kentucky, 2014), PDF sheets 85–89.
PDF sheet 89
PDF sheet 85
Cowdery, Bourbon, Strange, PDF sheets 85–89.
Scarce aged inventory, dismantled plants, and capital-intensive post-Repeal rebuilding.
September 29 fresh supplied-copy review: citation metadata and locator reconciled to the complete text and visual survey. PDF-sheet numbers are capture coordinates, not printed page numbers. Verified source fidelity does not establish historical truth.
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Charles K. Cowdery, Bourbon, Strange: Surprising Stories of American Whiskey (Made and Bottled in Kentucky, 2014), PDF sheets 85–89.
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Cowdery, Bourbon, Strange, PDF sheets 85–89.
Evidence and limit
Cowdery reports that aged American whiskey was highly concentrated when Prohibition ended, while many pre-1917 plants had been dismantled. Rebuilding required not only distilling skill but capital, time, modern equipment, regulation, financing, distribution, and marketing; smaller distillers often needed outside investors or lost control as successful growth consumed cash.
Useful synthesis of path dependence after repeal. Exact inventory shares and company histories require corroboration.
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