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Initial bounded pilot outline connecting three source types through excerpt, literature note, zettel, claim, citation, chapter, section, and draft.
Archived after structural validation passed. Not manuscript prose and not an active draft.
Review relation completeness and gap/orphan views. This is QA material, not book prose.
QA-0.1
Structural pilot only. This outline is not a proposed chapter of Wrangling Whiskey.
Production mechanism
Explain that distillation follows fermentation and separates and concentrates alcohol from the fermented base. Keep technical qualifications visible; later expansion requires sources on congeners, reflux, still design, and cuts.
Citation: Society of Wine Educators, 2025 Certified Specialist of Spirits Study Guide, 12.
Flavor and place
Introduce terroir as a working definition linking crop characteristics and flavor to environment. State that the concept is contested and that empirical causal claims require studies that separate environment, genotype, agriculture, fermentation, distillation, and maturation.
Citation: Rob Arnold, The Terroir of Whiskey, 1.
Whiskey and public power
Use the July 16, 1794 march to John Neville’s house as a bounded example of armed escalation around federal whiskey-excise enforcement. Do not generalize the rebellion’s full causes or consequences from this passage alone.
Citation: Thomas P. Slaughter, The Whiskey Rebellion, 3.