Reigler, Susan. Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide. 2nd ed. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
The guide rejects as unsupported the story that Elijah Craig reused barn-fire-charred wood for whiskey barrels, then discusses alternative development and naming explanations without establishing a single inventor.
Susan Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide, 2nd ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016), PDF sheets 23–26.
Susan Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide, 2nd ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016), PDF sheets 23–26.
PDF sheet 26
PDF sheet 23
Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country, 2nd ed., PDF sheets 23–26.
Chapter 1 — Bourbon origins
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Susan Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide, 2nd ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016), PDF sheets 23–26.
Reigler, Susan. Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide. 2nd ed. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
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The guide rejects as unsupported the story that Elijah Craig reused barn-fire-charred wood for whiskey barrels, then discusses alternative development and naming explanations without establishing a single inventor.
PDF23–24rejects the specific barn-fire story; it does not independently settle every Craig claim. PDF25 calls the Tarascon account plausible, which is not documentary proof. Alternative naming explanations remain unresolved.
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