Use Veach, Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey, p. 31, and Mitenbuler, Bourbon Empire, p. 14.
Veach — Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey — p. 31Mitenbuler — Bourbon Empire — PDF sheet 14Spoelman and Haskell — Dead Distillers — PDF sheets 71–76Raitz — Industrial concentration and factory transition — pp. 10–12Wondrich 2022 — Spirits trade history — complete PDF 1807–1814Wondrich 2022 — Three-chamber still — complete PDF 1846–1849American distilling shifted from cottage production to a factory system during the nineteenth century.
Both authors’ cottage-to-factory framing passages were visually verified at their exact locators.
The transition was gradual and uneven; small and seasonal distilling persisted.
Veach frames the nineteenth century as the period in which American distilling was transformed by industrial production, steam power, transport, and urban concentration.
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American distilling moved from cottage industry to factory systemThe cottage industry gave way to factories and brand differentiationSpoelman and Haskell — Dead Distillers — PDF sheets 71–76 — New York industrial distilling ecosystemIndustrialization concentrated output in fewer and larger distilleriesWondrich — The spirits trade evolved from local production to merchant systems, brands, and portfoliosWondrich — The three-chamber still was a major nineteenth-century American production systemEvidence judgment
Veach explicitly characterizes nineteenth-century American distilling as a movement from cottage industry to factory system. Mitenbuler independently describes cottage-industry trappings giving way to factories and commercial differentiation.
Qualification
The claim is structural and chronological at a broad scale. It should not be used to imply an instantaneous or universal transition.
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