Blending begins with inventory architecture

Use the linked Ready Chicago citations and their source-specific Excerpts; cite the precise component-inventory or scale-up section relevant to the sentence being drafted.

A repeatable blending program requires components to be created, sampled, classified, forecast, and reserved for defined roles before the final assembly step begins.

Publication-stage check completed 2026-08-29 across the linked book and web sources. Inventory, experimentation, and scale-up evidence is independently corroborated and publication-located.

The evidence comes from Canadian and Scotch practice; transfer to an American-whiskey program should be operationally validated.

Recipe design changes with available components, and consistency requires forecasting, reserves, substitutions, and defined component roles.

Ready for Drafting after publication-stage cross-source validation on 2026-08-29; no direct quotation is stored.