Supports tiered construction—base, functional middle, and accents—without treating the reported percentages as universal rules.
The reported base used twelve distilleries, with the largest single contribution at 14.4 percent; those figures are project-specific.
The fifty-state formula was built from a large base representing roughly two-thirds to three-quarters of the blend, then treated as one component while middle and accent tiers were added over about a month.
A Blend of Epic Proportions
Formula architecture and development sequence
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