Rothbaum, Noah. The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit. New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2025.
Used bourbon barrels are routinely purchased for Scotch maturation and may be rebuilt as hogsheads.
Noah Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit (New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2025), 39.
Noah Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit (New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2025), 39.
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Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible, 39.
Whiskey 101 — Barrels
Whole supplied-copy audit: complete PDF sheets 107; retained partial sheets 106. Secondary reporting on Scotch cooperage reuse, not an independent market census. Exclude the book's erroneous 549 L hogshead capacity; its diagram elsewhere gives about 250 L. Prior record retained for provenance: Verified 2026-08-29 against the complete edition: displayed p. 39 = complete PDF sheet 107. The citation's existing PDF sheet 106 reference is the retained partial locator.
Source and locator
Displayed p. 39; complete supplied PDF sheets 107. Retained partial-copy locator: sheets 106. Section: Whiskey 101 — Barrels.
Reusable citation
Noah Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit (New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2025), 39.
Evidence boundary
Secondary reporting on Scotch cooperage reuse, not an independent market census. Exclude the book's erroneous 549 L hogshead capacity; its diagram elsewhere gives about 250 L.
Source-fidelity verification does not establish independent factual accuracy. The existing linked Excerpt contains the bounded paraphrase and assessment.
Placement
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