Use to avoid the false equation of large-scale production with low quality while still documenting lost regional variation.
The concluding chapter balances the efficiencies of industrial scale against the cultural and sensory cost of homogenization.
As brands migrated to fewer distilleries, yeast, cooking, cooperage, and recipes became more standardized. Whiskey quality could remain high while local process “dialects” narrowed; new small producers may restore some diversity.
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As brands migrated to fewer distilleries, yeast, cooking, cooperage, and recipes became more standardized. Whiskey quality could remain high while local process “dialects” narrowed; new small producers may restore some diversity.
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Source section: Chapter Eighteen — The Story
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The concluding chapter balances the efficiencies of industrial scale against the cultural and sensory cost of homogenization.
Annotation
Use to avoid the false equation of large-scale production with low quality while still documenting lost regional variation.
Verification
Status: Verified
September 29 fresh audit: matched to supplied PDF sheets 196–198. These are PDF sheet numbers, not the print-edition pagination used in the index. Verification concerns source fidelity, not independent historical/scientific corroboration.