Use the institutional relationship, not the unsourced revenue amount. The passage broadens bourbon identity from distilleries to a supporting barrel-making trade.
The passage follows Lee’s discussion of competing origin stories for barrel charring and shifts to the contemporary place of cooperage in Kentucky.
Lee describes cooperage as a generational craft tied to Kentucky’s lumber industry and presents white-oak barrel production as an economically significant supporting trade within the state’s bourbon landscape.
PDF sheet 43 (A History of Kentucky Cooperages)
A History of Kentucky Cooperages
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Evidence
Lee describes cooperage as a generational craft tied to Kentucky’s lumber industry and presents white-oak barrel production as an economically significant supporting trade within the state’s bourbon landscape.
Locator
Locator type: Page
Start: PDF sheet 43 (A History of Kentucky Cooperages)
End: Same as start or not applicable
Source section: A History of Kentucky Cooperages
Context
The passage follows Lee’s discussion of competing origin stories for barrel charring and shifts to the contemporary place of cooperage in Kentucky.
Annotation
Use the institutional relationship, not the unsourced revenue amount. The passage broadens bourbon identity from distilleries to a supporting barrel-making trade.
Verification
Status: Verified
Searchable text and rendered PDF sheet 43 visually checked on 2026-08-25; numerical revenue wording excluded from the paraphrase.