Pacult, F. Paul. American Still Life: The Jim Beam Story and the Making of the World's #1 Bourbon. Foreword by Frederick Booker Noe III. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Beam's Choice is listed at 40% ABV with three stars and earthy, minty and dry-spice associations. The reproduced historical label specifies five years of age and charcoal filtration after aging.
F. Paul Pacult, American Still Life: The Jim Beam Story and the Making of the World's #1 Bourbon (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003), supplied PDF 203, Appendix A: Beam's Choice.
F. Paul Pacult, American Still Life: The Jim Beam Story and the Making of the World's #1 Bourbon (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003), supplied PDF 203, Appendix A: Beam's Choice.
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Pacult, American Still Life, supplied PDF 203.
Appendix A: Beam's Choice
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Bibliography: Pacult, F. Paul. American Still Life: The Jim Beam Story and the Making of the World's #1 Bourbon. Foreword by Frederick Booker Noe III. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
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Beam's Choice is listed at 40% ABV with three stars and earthy, minty and dry-spice associations. The reproduced historical label specifies five years of age and charcoal filtration after aging.
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Fresh enlarged PDF203 inspection confirms the label explicitly states filtration after aging. This establishes what this historical label claimed, not independent observation of the process or a modern Tennessee identity rule.