Huckelbridge, Dane. Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit. New York: William Morrow, 2014.
The opening chapter frames bourbon as the later convergence of Indigenous American maize agriculture and fermentation with Old World distillation knowledge and equipment.
Dane Huckelbridge, Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit (New York: William Morrow, 2014), PDF sheets 10–17.
Dane Huckelbridge, Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit (New York: William Morrow, 2014), PDF sheets 10–17.
PDF sheet 17
PDF sheet 10
Huckelbridge, Bourbon, PDF sheets 10–17.
Chapter 1 — Corn and distillation before bourbon
2026-09-29: fresh supplied-copy review covered all 320 sheets and 87 enlarged visuals. This entry is checked for fidelity to the cited passage, not independent truth. Copy lacks at least endnotes 39–56; earlier complete-source wording is superseded. Continental convergence is a narrative framework; the illustration does not establish Llull's authorship or priority. Distinguish fermentation from distillation and starch conversion.
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