Use this caveat whenever the book is treated as scientific authority; individual mechanisms still require attention to sample, matrix, and method. Fresh audit: Corrected Roman-page mismatch: original record incorrectly assigned vii–viii to PDF5–7. Principal reliability warning is PDF5/printedv, with scope and purpose on PDF6/printedvi.
The author defines the reliability boundary for the entire synthesis before presenting its technical chapters.
Miller warns that whisky science contains unusually little independent verification: much work is proprietary, conference-only, based on small samples, or reported without enough material characterization for confident generalization.
PDF sheet 6 / printed p. vi
PDF sheet 5 / printed p. v
Preface
September 28 fresh audit: passage and locator checked against the supplied 533-sheet PDF. Corrected Roman-page mismatch: original record incorrectly assigned vii–viii to PDF5–7. Principal reliability warning is PDF5/printedv, with scope and purpose on PDF6/printedvi.
Verified evidence record from the complete review of Whisky Science: A Condensed Distillation.
Evidence
Miller warns that whisky science contains unusually little independent verification: much work is proprietary, conference-only, based on small samples, or reported without enough material characterization for confident generalization.
Locator
- Section: Preface
- Start: PDF sheet 5 / printed p. v
- End: PDF sheet 6 / printed p. vi
Context
The author defines the reliability boundary for the entire synthesis before presenting its technical chapters.
Annotation
Use this caveat whenever the book is treated as scientific authority; individual mechanisms still require attention to sample, matrix, and method.
Supports
- No direct Claim relation; retained as an evidence-boundary record.
September 28 audit
Corrected Roman-page mismatch: original record incorrectly assigned vii–viii to PDF5–7. Principal reliability warning is PDF5/printedv, with scope and purpose on PDF6/printedvi.