Lubbers, Bernie. Bourbon Whiskey: Our Native Spirit: From Sour Mash to Sweet Adventures with a Whiskey Professor. Revised ed. Blue River Press, 2011.
Lubbers summarizes the Taft-era distinction between straight and blended whiskey as a disclosure rule tied to composition.
Bernie Lubbers, Bourbon Whiskey, PDF sheet 81.
Bernie Lubbers, Bourbon Whiskey: Our Native Spirit, rev. ed. (Blue River Press, 2011), PDF sheet 81.
PDF sheet 81
Lubbers, Bourbon Whiskey, PDF sheet 81.
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