Use as a secondary-source account of an industrial relationship, not as the final authority for the dated production totals or number of cooperages.
This passage links the durability of industrial cooperage to beverage demand and treats Prohibition as an industry-wide shock to both distilling and barrel production.
Work argues that whiskey and beer continued to require large numbers of wooden barrels after petroleum moved away from them; he connects American whiskey output, Prohibition, Repeal, and later production growth to contraction and recovery in cooperage demand.
PDF 121 / printed 119
PDF 119 / printed 117
Chapter 7, “Organizations: Guilds to Cooperages”
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Evidence
Work argues that whiskey and beer continued to require large numbers of wooden barrels after petroleum moved away from them; he connects American whiskey output, Prohibition, Repeal, and later growth to contraction and recovery in cooperage demand.
- Excerpt Type: Source Claim
- Locator: PDF 119–121 / printed 117–119
- Source: No access
- Literature Note:
American white oak, whiskey-barrel design, and global barrel flows — Work
Context
The passage links the durability of industrial cooperage to beverage demand and treats Prohibition as a shock to both distilling and barrel production.
Annotation
Retain the industrial relationship; independently verify dated production totals and cooperage counts before publication.