Academy application: document the target, quantities, substitutions and stop criteria as a proposed experiment. These are the author's practical recommendations, not a controlled trial. His claim that most recipes use five or six ingredients conflicts with the actual counts of seven, eight, six, seven and six. Bushmills Original is suggested as an alternative base, not demonstrated to be equivalent to pure grain whisky.
Tristan Stephenson, The Curious Bartender: An Odyssey of Malt, Bourbon & Rye Whiskies (2014). Preserved PDF screens 576–577; displayed book page(s) 229.
Stephenson advises defining a purpose for a home blend, choosing manageable components, and abandoning endless attempts to rescue a failed blend. He offers five recipes with different flavor targets; grain whisky is the base for four, while Grand Old Lustre uses malts only.
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Home blending: purposeful, manageable experiments
Fresh sequential text and visual audit of PDF screens 576–591; all five metric recipe totals recalculated. Verified denotes faithful source representation and arithmetic, not independent tasting validation.
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Evidence
Stephenson advises defining a purpose for a home blend, choosing manageable components, and abandoning endless attempts to rescue a failed blend. He offers five recipes with different flavor targets; grain whisky is the base for four, while Grand Old Lustre uses malts only.
Location and context
The Curious Bartender: An Odyssey of Malt, Bourbon & Rye Whiskies (2014), supplied PDF pp. 576–577. Numbering refers to the preserved PDF, not the printed edition.
Annotation
Academy application: document the target, quantities, substitutions and stop criteria as a proposed experiment. These are the author's practical recommendations, not a controlled trial. His claim that most recipes use five or six ingredients conflicts with the actual counts of seven, eight, six, seven and six. Bushmills Original is suggested as an alternative base, not demonstrated to be equivalent to pure grain whisky.
Verification
Fresh sequential text and visual audit of PDF screens 576–591; all five metric recipe totals recalculated. Verified denotes faithful source representation and arithmetic, not independent tasting validation. No quotation is presented as verbatim. Displayed book page(s): 229.
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