Corroborates the corpus rule that bourbon-origin stories require contemporary documentary evidence. Specific ancient and medieval dates in the surrounding passage remain unverified leads.
A practitioner history section explicitly resisting lone-inventor narratives.
Greene argues that bourbon was not invented in a single act: modern bourbon emerged cumulatively from much older practices of distillation, cooperage, grain-spirit making, storage, and continuing refinement.
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No One Invented Bourbon
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