A 2017 practitioner interpretation, not measured causal evidence or a current market assessment. Verify brand-specific dates and stock data independently. His adjoining age-versus-quality preference is not a legal maturation rule.
The whiskey primer shifts from broad category history to contemporary market behavior.
Meehan attributes the preceding decade's whiskey-sales growth to classic cocktails, craft distilling and local-food advocacy, and says mature-stock scarcity encouraged some producers to remove age statements.
PDF sheet 434
PDF sheet 434
Whisk(e)y — Category Revival
October 1 fresh audit against the sequential 710-sheet text and individual-visual review. Canonical Source, Literature Note and existing relations retained. A 2017 practitioner interpretation, not measured causal evidence or a current market assessment. Verify brand-specific dates and stock data independently. His adjoining age-versus-quality preference is not a legal maturation rule.
Evidence retained from the complete 710-sheet textual and visual review of Meehan's Bartender Manual.
Evidence
Meehan attributes the preceding decade's whiskey-sales growth to classic cocktails, craft distilling and local-food advocacy, and says mature-stock scarcity encouraged some producers to remove age statements.
Location and context
Source section: Whisk(e)y — Category Revival
Locator: PDF sheet 434
The whiskey primer shifts from broad category history to contemporary market behavior.
Annotation
A 2017 practitioner interpretation, not measured causal evidence or a current market assessment. Verify brand-specific dates and stock data independently. His adjoining age-versus-quality preference is not a legal maturation rule.