Hannush, Drew. The Lost History of Tennessee Whiskey: Heroes, Villains, and Legends from a Whiskey Story Time Forgot. Travel Fuels Life LLC, 2023.
Supports Hannush’s finding that the familiar phrase first appeared in 1896 without defining the process.
Drew Hannush, The Lost History of Tennessee Whiskey: Heroes, Villains, and Legends from a Whiskey Story Time Forgot (Travel Fuels Life LLC, 2023), supplied PDF sheets 117–117.
Drew Hannush, The Lost History of Tennessee Whiskey: Heroes, Villains, and Legends from a Whiskey Story Time Forgot (Travel Fuels Life LLC, 2023), supplied PDF sheets 117–117.
PDF sheet 117
PDF sheet 117
Hannush, Lost History of Tennessee Whiskey, supplied PDF sheets 117–117.
The Lincoln County Process?
Fresh text comparison2026-09-28: PDF sheets117–117; extracted on-screen ebook labels102. Physical PDF-sheet locator is canonical. Full457-sheet visual layout survey completed; contact sheets are not fine-detail proof. Capture lacks endnotes, bibliography and index; this verifies representation of a secondary source, not its primary evidence. The passage distinguishes distillers and merchants from a newspaper usage; do not generalize its opening negative to every nineteenth-century text. The 1896 example is an earliest-found result, not proof of first use.
Citation use
Use with attribution for Hannush’s finding that the phrase “Lincoln County process” first appeared in 1896 without a definition.
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Do not imply the underlying newspaper was directly inspected in this pass.
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Displayed ebook page 102; rendered PDF sheet 117.