The continuity principle is durable; adjacent origin stories and causal history require specialist corroboration.
The statement appears during the transition from early distilling stories to post-Civil-War industrial change.
In the American-history narrative, Robinson explicitly warns that surviving names should not be assumed to preserve recipes across two centuries of war, industrial change, ownership, and production disruption.
Replacement PDF 168; ebook 128
Replacement PDF 168; ebook 128
Class Three — A Brief History of Whiskey in America
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In the American-history narrative, Robinson explicitly warns that surviving names should not be assumed to preserve recipes across two centuries of war, industrial change, ownership, and production disruption.
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Complete replacement PDF 168–168; displayed ebook 128–128. The continuity principle is durable; adjacent origin stories and causal history require specialist corroboration.
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