A 2014-era snapshot, not current operations. Distinguish brand age, site age, legal-distillation firsts, actual distillation and sourced liquid.
The author acknowledges that craft authenticity can itself become a marketing convention.
The epilogue uses Tuthilltown and new microdistilleries across several states to argue that local grain, small plants, and regional experimentation were restoring a geographically diverse American whiskey landscape.
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2026-09-29: fresh supplied-copy review covered all 320 sheets and 87 enlarged visuals. This entry is checked for fidelity to the cited passage, not independent truth. Copy lacks at least endnotes 39–56; earlier complete-source wording is superseded. A 2014-era snapshot, not current operations. Distinguish brand age, site age, legal-distillation firsts, actual distillation and sourced liquid.
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