This is the provenance layer of the project: representational credibility was defined before flavor construction began.
Hasman summarizes rules developed by Nora Ganley-Roper and Adam Polonski before describing difficult state-by-state procurement.
The project required each component to be straight bourbon distilled in the represented state, excluded sourced-in bourbon and finishes, limited the blend to one distillery per state, and included personal visits to every participating distillery.
Paragraph beginning A one distillery per state rule
Paragraph beginning At this early point
Project rules and authenticity
Rechecked September 6, 2026, LINK-054 lines 0016–0019. Distinctive passage anchors replace extraction-dependent paragraph counts. Source fidelity verified; no independent project audit.
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Evidence
The project required straight bourbon distilled in each represented state, excluded finishes and sourced-in liquid, limited representation to one distillery per state, and included personal visits.
Location and context
Passage anchors: Paragraph beginning At this early point through Paragraph beginning A one distillery per state rule. Local LINK-054 text lines 0016–0019.
Context: The rules precede the discussion of difficult state-by-state procurement.
Annotation
The project defined representational credibility before flavor construction.
Provenance
Verification
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