Treat interview narratives as attributed testimony and leads for corroboration, not as self-authenticating fact.
This methodological admission appears before the distillery profiles.
Rodewald says he had not independently verified the distillers' stories and could not attest to their factual accuracy, although he regarded them as true in a broader narrative sense.
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