Use for research routing and gap detection only. Drafted history must cite the underlying entries or stronger sources.
A deliberately approximate global timeline ending with craft distilling and bourbon/rye revival through 2020.
The editors label their Appendix 2 timeline anything but definitive, group many entries by century or half-century, and flag speculative or merely possible dates; American milestones therefore function as prompts to follow entry bibliographies rather than as stand-alone chronological proof.
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Appendix 2 — A Simple Timeline of Distillation
Verified against LOCAL-077 PDF sheets 209–212 and the sequential contact sheets during the complete 212-sheet uploaded-extract review. Entry-title plus PDF-sheet locator is used because published pagination is not dependable in the OCR conversion.
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