Absence of demonstrated necessity is not evidence that every finishing regimen is sensorially identical. Fresh audit: Absence of demonstrated wood-specific necessity is not equivalence of all marriage regimens. Equilibration time depends on pH, composition and temperature.
Closing maturation discussion of finishing, mingling, equilibration, and production claims.
Miller finds no established scientific basis for requiring post-blend 'marriage' specifically in wood, although ordinary equilibration after mixing and continuing extraction or reaction are chemically plausible.
PDF sheet 330 / printed p. 322
PDF sheet 329 / printed p. 321
Chapter 8 — Maturation
September 28 fresh audit: passage and locator checked against the supplied 533-sheet PDF. Absence of demonstrated wood-specific necessity is not equivalence of all marriage regimens. Equilibration time depends on pH, composition and temperature.
Verified evidence record from the complete review of Whisky Science: A Condensed Distillation.
Evidence
Miller finds no established scientific basis for requiring post-blend 'marriage' specifically in wood, although ordinary equilibration after mixing and continuing extraction or reaction are chemically plausible.
Locator
- Section: Chapter 8 — Maturation
- Start: PDF sheet 329 / printed p. 321
- End: PDF sheet 330 / printed p. 322
Context
Closing maturation discussion of finishing, mingling, equilibration, and production claims.
Annotation
Absence of demonstrated necessity is not evidence that every finishing regimen is sensorially identical.
Supports
September 28 audit
Absence of demonstrated wood-specific necessity is not equivalence of all marriage regimens. Equilibration time depends on pH, composition and temperature.