Reigler, Susan. Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide. 2nd ed. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
The Louisville chapter describes the city as a transport and commercial center where distillers, rectifiers, wholesalers, bottlers, and later corporate offices connected Kentucky production to wider markets.
Susan Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide, 2nd ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016), PDF sheets 38–45.
Susan Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide, 2nd ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016), PDF sheets 38–45.
PDF sheet 45
PDF sheet 38
Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country, 2nd ed., PDF sheets 38–45.
Chapter 2 — Louisville whiskey economy
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Source and locator
Susan Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide, 2nd ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016), PDF sheets 38–45.
Supported scope
The Louisville chapter describes the city as a transport and commercial center where distillers, rectifiers, wholesalers, bottlers, and later corporate offices connected Kentucky production to wider markets.
Source audit qualification
PDF38 identifies Brown-Forman headquarters and a separate distillery; do not attach this headquarters description to Buffalo Trace. PDF43–45 supports transport, rectification, offices, bottling and consolidation. Generalization describes the guide's account, not independent verification of its historical firsts, counts or corporate status today.
Evidence and usage
05 — Louisville joined river transport, rectification, bottling, and corporate control provides the underlying evidence. Reigler, Susan. Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide. 2nd ed. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. Ready means the reference is usable for the stated scope, not that the historical or current-operating claims are independently validated or published in course content.