Rejected American-whiskey legal summary in Handbook of Alcoholic Beverages

Retained as a negative-control record so this tertiary legal summary cannot be reused as drafting evidence.

These statements conflict with current U.S. standards of identity. Bourbon and rye whiskey have no general minimum aging period; straight status introduces the two-year threshold, and the regulations specify new charred oak containers without narrowing the wood to American white oak.

The book's American-whiskey section incorrectly states that Bourbon may contain no more than 79 percent corn and must age at least two years in newly charred American white oak; it also assigns an erroneous two-year new-charred-cask requirement to rye and an erroneous two-year uncharred-cask rule to aged corn whiskey.

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Chapter 3, §§3.3.4–3.3.5, Bourbon, Tennessee, Rye, and Corn Whiskey

Fresh audit confirms problem statements at PDF539,544–545/printed522,527–528; relatedTable3.3.1 inspected. Preserve Rejected status and exclusion from drafting. Prior regulatory comparison remains historical; any legal drafting requires a current controlling-source check. September 28 fresh review now covers all 1185 supplied sheets, including references, appendices, glossary, index and back cover, with443 detail-page inspections. Full reading does not upgrade this secondary passage into independent primary validation. Additional overgeneralized three-year aging statement at printed956/PDF973 is excluded; glossaryGNS85–95%ABV atPDF1141 is not a US legal definition.