Absence in examined advertisements does not prove absence of the practice. Mash-tub treatment is not direct evidence of a barrel invention, and the author's categorical reused-wood color inference is unreliable.
Barrel charring; supplied 2008 reissue of 1971 work.
Crowgey notes absent color or charring references in material he examined and connects Hall's 1818 mash-tub sanitation burning to a possible origin of barrel treatment.
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Barrel charring
Read against supplied PDF text and images. Locators are PDF screens, not printed pages. Verified means faithful source capture, not independent historical corroboration. Absence in examined advertisements does not prove absence of the practice. Mash-tub treatment is not direct evidence of a barrel invention, and the author's categorical reused-wood color inference is unreliable.
No access / Whiskey Excerpts Database (USWA)
Evidence
Crowgey notes absent color or charring references in material he examined and connects Hall's 1818 mash-tub sanitation burning to a possible origin of barrel treatment.
Location and context
No access; Barrel charring; supplied PDF screens 129–132. These are not printed-page numbers. Edition: 2008 reissue of 1971 work.
Annotation
Absence in examined advertisements does not prove absence of the practice. Mash-tub treatment is not direct evidence of a barrel invention, and the author's categorical reused-wood color inference is unreliable.
Verification and use
Absence in examined advertisements does not prove absence of the practice. Mash-tub treatment is not direct evidence of a barrel invention, and the author's categorical reused-wood color inference is unreliable.
Faithful source capture checked against supplied text and images. This does not mean that every cited-through primary record has been independently verified.
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