Supports a mixed-farm account of early whiskey production rather than treating the still as a stand-alone beverage business.
A secondary synthesis of early North American farm distilling. The passage’s claim that spirits were safer than water is excluded.
Wright and Pilkington describe early American stills as farm equipment: farmers distilled grain that might otherwise spoil into a smaller-volume, higher-value commodity and fed the spent grain to livestock. Distilling therefore linked preservation, transport, cash value, and animal feed within the farm economy.
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Chapter 7 — History
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