Notes for chapter 3, “Spirits Distilled Within the United States”. Check statutory version before reusing rates or calculations. Author's loose use of whiskey for rum and brandy is not a valid modern spirits classification. Do not repeat the overbroad state-bond prohibition in chapter 3, in the paragraph beginning “Perhaps the most thoroughgoing continental renovation”.
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Whiskey turned bulky grain into a transportable, exchangeable product in a cash-poor economy. Hogeland argues that capacity, throughput, seasonality and cash requirements made the excise more burdensome for small distillers than large continuous producers.
Chapter 3, “Spirits Distilled Within the United States”
Chapter 3, “Spirits Distilled Within the United States”
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Whiskey turned bulky grain into a transportable, exchangeable product in a cash-poor economy. Hogeland argues that capacity, throughput, seasonality and cash requirements made the excise more burdensome for small distillers than large continuous producers.
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Notes for chapter 3, “Spirits Distilled Within the United States”. Check statutory version before reusing rates or calculations. Author's loose use of whiskey for rum and brandy is not a valid modern spirits classification. Do not repeat the overbroad state-bond prohibition in chapter 3, in the paragraph beginning “Perhaps the most thoroughgoing continental renovation”.