Corroborates the existing warning against back-projecting bourbon into the 1775 story and supports versioned cocktail provenance.
The entry presents the drink as a versioned American form rather than an unchanged bourbon recipe.
Meehan distinguishes the Revolutionary-era rum-and-cider association from Jerry Thomas's nineteenth-century bourbon-and-cider formula and connects the change to bourbon's rise and cider's decline.
PDF sheet 456
PDF sheet 454
Whisk(e)y Recipes — Stone Fence
October 1 fresh audit against the sequential 710-sheet text and individual-visual review. Canonical Source, Literature Note and existing relations retained. Evidence and locator recover the stated practitioner account; underlying historical or causal claims are not independently verified by this check.
Evidence retained from the complete 710-sheet textual and visual review of Meehan's Bartender Manual.
Evidence
Meehan distinguishes the Revolutionary-era rum-and-cider association from Jerry Thomas's nineteenth-century bourbon-and-cider formula and connects the change to bourbon's rise and cider's decline.
Location and context
Source section: Whisk(e)y Recipes — Stone Fence
Locator: PDF sheets 454–456
The entry presents the drink as a versioned American form rather than an unchanged bourbon recipe.
Annotation
Corroborates the existing warning against back-projecting bourbon into the 1775 story and supports versioned cocktail provenance.