Supports plural service. Anecdotal consumption advice and simplified physical explanations are excluded.
Bryson frames service as a contextual choice and treats water, temperature, dilution, and mixers as variables.
Neat whiskey, measured water, ice, highballs, and cocktails answer different sensory and social purposes; no one serving form is a universal authenticity test.
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