Independent secondary corroboration for the claim that early rum production helped establish infrastructure later shared by American distilling. It does not eliminate the need for archival evidence.
The whiskey chapter places distilling inside a regional network of barrel makers, timber, grain, transport, and storage rather than treating the distillery as an isolated factory.
Work describes New England rum distilleries as operating alongside nearby cooperages, then traces additional cooperages and warehouses westward as grain production and accessible oak supported Midwestern distilling.
PDF 188 / printed 186
PDF 188 / printed 186
Chapter 12, “Other Barrels”
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Verified evidence record from the complete page-level review of Work (2014).
Evidence
Work describes New England rum distilleries as operating alongside nearby cooperages, then traces additional cooperages and warehouses westward as grain production and accessible oak supported inland distilling.
- Excerpt Type: Source Claim
- Locator: PDF 188 / printed 186
- Source: No access
- Literature Note:
American white oak, whiskey-barrel design, and global barrel flows — Work
Context
The whiskey chapter places distilling inside a regional system of barrel makers, timber, grain, transport, and storage.
Annotation
Independent secondary corroboration for CLM-171. It strengthens the research lead but does not replace archival evidence.