Strong evidence for separating brand, owner, site, recipe, and producer continuity; the author's speculation about a stolen recipe is not adopted.
The chapter combines court history, production relocation, a Pappy Van Winkle recollection, family memory, and the 1937 sale.
Shwab describes Cascade production moving to Stitzel in Louisville and the later sale of name and rights to Schenley. The book's Kentucky shutdown dates and Pappy ownership account require corroboration; brand survival does not prove continuous production.
PDF sheet 235
PDF sheet 231
The Final Game
Text and relevant visual evidence checked against rendered PDF sheets 231–235 on 2026-08-27. The record is a bounded paraphrase; quoted archival, newspaper, family, marketing, and authorial layers remain distinguished. September29 fresh full supplied-copy audit: corrected overbroad inference; see LIT26 audit and exact PDF locators.
Verified atomic evidence record EXT-847. This is a research paraphrase, not a quotation.
Evidence
Tennessee prohibition pushed Cascade production to the Stitzel Distillery in Louisville, Kentucky prohibition ended that arrangement, and the Shwab family later sold the business name and rights to Schenley rather than resume production themselves.
Context
The chapter combines court history, production relocation, a Pappy Van Winkle recollection, family memory, and the 1937 sale.
Research annotation
Strong evidence for separating brand, owner, site, recipe, and producer continuity; the author's speculation about a stolen recipe is not adopted.
Source layer and locator
- Section: The Final Game
- Locator: PDF sheet 231–PDF sheet 235
- Record type: Paraphrase
Verification and use constraints
Text and relevant visual evidence checked against rendered PDF sheets 231–235 on 2026-08-27. The record is a bounded paraphrase; quoted archival, newspaper, family, marketing, and authorial layers remain distinguished.
Use this record with its linked citation. Keep the book author's synthesis, reproduced period reporting, court or government records, family memory, and researcher inference distinct. Do not elevate promotional language, partisan allegations, superlatives, or unresolved culpability into unqualified fact.