Use only as an attributed example of brand continuity without production continuity; current bottlings and ownership require fresh verification.
A dated product-profile page illustrating separation between the persistence of a brand name and the persistence of its original production site and liquid.
Hacker describes I.W. Harper as a brand created by the Bernheim brothers in 1879 whose original distillery no longer exists, yet which later returned in new contemporary bottlings.
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Bourbon chapter — I.W. Harper profile
Legacy partial local sheet 24 is retained for citation stability; the same passage was cross-verified in the complete 808-sheet edition at local sheet 345 on 2026-08-28.
Verified paraphrase from one canonical Source.
Evidence
I.W. Harper returned as a brand after the original production site disappeared; the full paraphrase is stored in Excerpt Text.
Location and context
Legacy partial local PDF sheet 24, cross-verified at complete-edition local sheet 345, bourbon chapter.
Annotation
Use only as an attributed example of brand continuity without production continuity. Current ownership and liquid require fresh verification.