Rothbaum, Noah. The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit. Workman Publishing Company, 2025.
The contested new-charred-oak rule favored one regional production model and disadvantaged refill-cooperage traditions.
Noah Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit (New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2025), 107–109.
Noah Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit (New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2025), 107–109.
107–109
Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible, 107–109.
American Whiskey — New Charred Oak
Whole supplied-copy audit: complete PDF sheets 246–250; retained partial sheets 241–245. The rule's regional winners and losers are Rothbaum's historical interpretation. Verify original regulatory text, adoption and transition dates before a legal chronology; the relationship of the 1936 rule to the 1938 transition remains unresolved here. Prior record retained for provenance: Verified 2026-08-29 against the complete edition: displayed pp. 107–109 = complete PDF sheets 246–250. Existing PDF sheets 241–245 are retained partial locators; primary federal corroboration remains required.
Source and locator
Displayed p. 107–109; complete supplied PDF sheets 246–250. Retained partial-copy locator: sheets 241–245. Section: American Whiskey — New Charred Oak.
Reusable citation
Noah Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit (New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2025), 107–109.
Evidence boundary
The rule's regional winners and losers are Rothbaum's historical interpretation. Verify original regulatory text, adoption and transition dates before a legal chronology; the relationship of the 1936 rule to the 1938 transition remains unresolved here.
Source-fidelity verification does not establish independent factual accuracy. The existing linked Excerpt contains the bounded paraphrase and assessment.
Placement
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