Primary company testimony that warehouse position is a component variable and that batching can average position-driven differences. Exact current practice is date-sensitive.
This is a direct operator description of Beam's standard batching practice as of the book's 2012 publication.
Noe describes batching barrels from each floor of a nine-story rack house: cooler, lower-proof whiskey from lower floors is married with hotter, higher-proof whiskey from upper floors before proofing and bottling.
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Bourbon Primer — production process
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