Useful for Whiskey Icons and for explaining how production architecture became brand evidence.
The chapter treats Taylor as both a technical reformer and a gifted promoter.
Taylor’s O.F.C. project combined investment in copper equipment, improved plant design, process claims, landscaped hospitality, and branded promotion into a deliberately modern distillery identity.
Chapter 6, “The Building of O.F.C.”
Chapter 6, “The Building of O.F.C.”
Fresh full-copy audit, 2026-09-29. PDF74–78: technological superiority and limestone-water claims partly derive from promotional material. OFC name expansion remains debated in the narrative; timeline's certainty does not settle it.
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