Use modularity to preserve options, then reduce the pool and assign provisional functions before blending.
The transcript acknowledges that a very large component array is daunting without a role system.
Separating grain, distillation, age, cask, and proof choices creates many possible components; Livermore organizes them as base and flavoring whiskies and adjusts proof according to which attributes should lead.
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