Curtis, Wayne. And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. Revised and updated. New York: Broadway Books, 2018. eISBN9780525575030. User-supplied PDF.
Post-Revolution trade barriers and molasses cost, local-national purchasing attitudes, interior grain surplus and transport density made grain spirits attractive. Brown1791gin retooling and1802excise repeal lead into early19c high consumption.
Wayne Curtis, And a Bottle of Rum, revised and updated (2018), supplied PDF pp. 123-131.
Wayne Curtis, And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails, revised and updated (New York: Broadway Books, 2018), supplied PDF pp. 123-131.
PDF 123-131
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Rum's decline and whiskey's ascent
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