Clarifies why more wood character is not automatically more maturity and connects maturation decisions to house style.
The model follows a discussion of distillation fractions and precedes the fill-strength section.
Strickland models maturation as a balance: immature spirit character declines while wood-derived character rises, but excessive cask influence can mask the distillery’s house character.
PDF p. 59; ebook p. 42
PDF p. 58; ebook p. 40
Chapter 2 — Cask Chemistry, immature and mature character
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Strickland models maturation as a balance: immature spirit character declines while wood-derived character rises, but excessive cask influence can mask the distillery’s house character.
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- Source section: Chapter 2 — Cask Chemistry, immature and mature character
- Start: PDF p. 58; ebook p. 40
- End: PDF p. 59; ebook p. 42
Context
The model follows a discussion of distillation fractions and precedes the fill-strength section.
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Clarifies why more wood character is not automatically more maturity and connects maturation decisions to house style.
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Complete 247-sheet page-by-page review finished 2026-08-26; locator checked against extracted text and representative rendered-page evidence.