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A regional synthesis of early production through Prohibition, consolidation, vodka competition, and craft revival.
Wondrich describes British North American drinkers replacing difficult-to-brew or costly imports with locally available fruit, grain, maize, and Caribbean molasses; Dutch, German, British, and Scotch-Irish knowledge then interacted with regional materials and markets to form distinct American and Canadian spirits traditions.
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The United States and Canada
Verified against LOCAL-077 PDF sheets 42–45 and the sequential contact sheets during the complete 212-sheet uploaded-extract review. Entry-title plus PDF-sheet locator is used because published pagination is not dependable in the OCR conversion.
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