Useful corroboration for the institutional mechanics of industrialization; the exact statute and date should be controlled by stronger legal or historical sources.
The passage connects bonded storage to the economics of aging and a shift from unaged or lightly aged whiskey toward more barrel-influenced products.
Spoelman and Haskell state that an 1868 federal change allowed barreled whiskey to remain in bonded warehouses with tax postponed until removal, reducing the tax penalty on stored inventory and encouraging more deliberate aging.
PDF sheets 78–79 (displayed pp. 53–54)
Chapter 2 — post-Civil War excise and aging
Verified against complete extracted text and rendered PDF sheets 78–79.
Evidence unit
Spoelman and Haskell state that an 1868 federal change allowed barreled whiskey to remain in bonded warehouses with tax postponed until removal. They connect this altered carrying cost to more deliberate aging and a growing shift away from unaged or lightly aged products.
Locator
Chapter 2, PDF sheets 78–79, displayed pages 53–54.
Research use
Corroborates the institutional and fiscal mechanisms behind post-Civil War whiskey industrialization.
Reliability boundary
Use stronger legal or historical sources to control the exact statute, date, and causal magnitude.