Strong orientation evidence for the corpus schema. Technical details must be corroborated, but the distributed-role model is directly useful.
The chapter mixes author synthesis, practitioner interviews, drawings, and supplied photographs from multiple producers and categories, including American whiskey.
Meehan maps farming, transport, milling, water, yeast, fermentation, distillation, maturation, blending, filtration, bottling, and tasting as a connected spirits supply chain that few brands fully control.
PDF sheet 204
PDF sheet 181
Spirits — Production and Evaluation
October 1 fresh audit against the sequential 710-sheet text and individual-visual review. Canonical Source, Literature Note and existing relations retained. Evidence and locator recover the stated practitioner account; underlying historical or causal claims are not independently verified by this check.
Evidence retained from the complete 710-sheet textual and visual review of Meehan's Bartender Manual.
Evidence
Meehan maps farming, transport, milling, water, yeast, fermentation, distillation, maturation, blending, filtration, bottling, and tasting as a connected spirits supply chain that few brands fully control.
Location and context
Source section: Spirits — Production and Evaluation
Locator: PDF sheets 181–204
The chapter mixes author synthesis, practitioner interviews, drawings, and supplied photographs from multiple producers and categories, including American whiskey.
Annotation
Strong orientation evidence for the corpus schema. Technical details must be corroborated, but the distributed-role model is directly useful.