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Post-Civil War federal revenue rules helped determine which Tennessee distilling technologies and business scales remained legally and economically feasible by imposing meters, closed pipes, taxes on intermediate distillate, and fixed fermentation periods.
The complete 457-sheet source text and visual layout were reviewed; this claim remains in review because Hannush's underlying primary records were not independently opened for every component.
This is a source-supported effect claim, not proof that every rule was enacted specifically to eliminate small producers; exact legal provisions require primary verification.
The cited passage connects named administrative requirements to the collapse of legal small log-still production and longer natural fermentation.
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Hannush Source Audit — 28 September 2026
PDF174–175 distinguish a72-hour fermentation from a five-day start-to-output cycle. Exact statutory wording and administrative practice require primary verification.
The supplied capture lacks endnotes, bibliography and index, and has confirmed interior gaps. All available457 sheets were read; this is not full-source completion. Fresh source review and limitations