Do not begin by pouring every available bottle together. Profile components, hold the plausible ones, and formulate from a bounded pool.
The episode distinguishes ongoing inventory knowledge from the later act of formula construction.
Elliott continually monitors maturing whiskey, sets unusually promising batches aside, studies the special-release candidates for weeks, and reduces them to a smaller working pool before serious mixing begins.
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Candidate identification and reduction
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