The ten-family list is on screen248;246–254 is broader context. This is the author’s organizing vocabulary, not a validated exhaustive taxonomy or a chemical identification method. His surrounding rejection of scores expresses preference; it does not invalidate formal sensory measurement. Claims about sensory sex differences, papillae, water, barley, reflux and wood chemistry require separate evidence. Proposed Academy use: a descriptor grouping exercise, separating description from liking and inferred production cause.
The Curious Bartender: An Odyssey of Malt, Bourbon & Rye Whiskies (2014); supplied PDF screen numbering, not printed pagination.
The tasting discussion groups descriptors into fruit, floral, cereal, sulfur, vanilla, nut, mustiness, wood, spice and smoke families.
PDF screen 248; displayed ebook p.107
PDF screen 248; displayed ebook p.107
The flavour of whisky
Fresh sequential text reading and rendered-layout inspection of supplied PDF screens246–254; original paraphrase checked. Verified source fidelity only, not independent corroboration. Incidental small photograph lettering is not claimed fully transcribed.
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Evidence
The tasting discussion groups descriptors into fruit, floral, cereal, sulfur, vanilla, nut, mustiness, wood, spice and smoke families.
Location and context
The Curious Bartender: An Odyssey of Malt, Bourbon & Rye Whiskies (2014), supplied PDF screen248, displayed ebook p.107. Surrounding context246–254 also reviewed; PDF screens and printed pagination are distinct.
Annotation
The ten-family list is on screen248;246–254 is broader context. This is the author’s organizing vocabulary, not a validated exhaustive taxonomy or a chemical identification method. His surrounding rejection of scores expresses preference; it does not invalidate formal sensory measurement. Claims about sensory sex differences, papillae, water, barley, reflux and wood chemistry require separate evidence. Proposed Academy use: a descriptor grouping exercise, separating description from liking and inferred production cause.
Verification
Fresh sequential text reading and rendered-layout inspection of supplied PDF screens246–254; original paraphrase checked. Verified source fidelity only, not independent corroboration. Incidental small photograph lettering is not claimed fully transcribed.