Governing reliability note: photographs can support observable visual claims, while caption history and process explanations need independent corroboration.
The acknowledgment distinguishes the book's visual-archaeology purpose from a technical or authoritative distilling manual.
Peachee explicitly presents the captions as informal information rather than an authoritative explanation of bourbon distilling.
PDF sheet 271
PDF sheet 271
Acknowledgments — evidence limitation
2026-09-29: main text/captions read across 274 screens; all pages visually surveyed and 22 enlarged details inspected. This record is bounded to its cited observation or source assertion, not independent historical/engineering corroboration. Whole-source full review remains open for embedded fine print. Text locator rechecked.
Verified source evidence from the complete review of Carol Peachee's The Birth of Bourbon.
Evidence
Peachee states that her captions are comments, information, and small facts and “are not meant to be an authoritative explanation of bourbon distilling.”
Locator
- PDF: PDF sheet 271
- Section: Acknowledgments — evidence limitation
- Evidence type: Direct Quote
Context
The acknowledgment distinguishes the book's visual-archaeology purpose from a technical or authoritative distilling manual.
Analytical use and caution
Governing reliability note: photographs can support observable visual claims, while caption history and process explanations need independent corroboration.
Verification
Complete 274-sheet page-by-page textual and visual review completed 2026-08-26; image-caption pairing inspected in numbered contact sheets and locator checked against extracted text.