Rothbaum, Noah. The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit. Workman Publishing Company, 2025.
MGP supplied the aged inventory and contract production that allowed many modern whiskey brands to launch quickly.
Noah Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit (New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2025), 132.
Noah Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit (New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2025), 132.
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Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible, 132.
American Whiskey — MGP and Contract Production
Whole supplied-copy audit: complete PDF sheets 295–298; retained partial sheets 290. Separate brand ownership, distillation, maturation and bottling. Contract sourcing is a production arrangement, not inherently deception; disclosure claims require label-specific assessment. Stated capacity must not become actual annual output. Prior record retained for provenance: Verified 2026-08-29 against the complete edition: displayed p. 132 = complete PDF sheets 295–298. Existing PDF sheet 290 is the retained partial locator.
Source and locator
Displayed p. 132; complete supplied PDF sheets 295–298. Retained partial-copy locator: sheets 290. Section: American Whiskey — MGP and Contract Production.
Reusable citation
Noah Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit (New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2025), 132.
Evidence boundary
Separate brand ownership, distillation, maturation and bottling. Contract sourcing is a production arrangement, not inherently deception; disclosure claims require label-specific assessment. Stated capacity must not become actual annual output.
Source-fidelity verification does not establish independent factual accuracy. The existing linked Excerpt contains the bounded paraphrase and assessment.
Placement
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