Fred Minnick. Bottom Shelf: How a Forgotten Brand of Bourbon Saved One Man’s Life. Sourcebooks, 2026.
Label evidence and qualified interviews indicate that Old Crow Chessmen likely contained Old Taylor whiskey.
Fred Minnick, Bottom Shelf: How a Forgotten Brand of Bourbon Saved One Man’s Life (Sourcebooks, 2026), PDF sheets 211–215.
Fred Minnick, Bottom Shelf: How a Forgotten Brand of Bourbon Saved One Man’s Life (Sourcebooks, 2026), PDF sheets 211–215.
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Minnick, Bottom Shelf, PDF sheets 211–215.
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An attributed, plausible inference, not established batch provenance: 'bottled by' does not itself prove outside distillation, and Johnson did not witness the Chessmen filling. Original transfer and bottling records remain missing.
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Fred Minnick, Bottom Shelf: How a Forgotten Brand of Bourbon Saved One Man’s Life (Sourcebooks, 2026), PDF sheets 211–215.
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Label evidence and qualified interviews indicate that Old Crow Chessmen likely contained Old Taylor whiskey.
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An attributed, plausible inference, not established batch provenance: 'bottled by' does not itself prove outside distillation, and Johnson did not witness the Chessmen filling. Original transfer and bottling records remain missing.
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