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The chapter combines a regional-production rationale with the American Single Malt Whiskey Commission's voluntary category-building effort as it stood in 2021.
Zandona connects Pacific Northwest single malt to moderate maritime conditions and regional barley supply, then describes distillers collectively defining American single malt around 100-percent malted barley, single-distillery production, domestic production and maturation, cask size, and proof limits.
“Pacific Northwest: American single malt whiskey,” introduction, history, and production discussion
“Pacific Northwest: American single malt whiskey,” introduction, history, and production discussion
2026-09-16 locator crosswalk: use the named section “Pacific Northwest: American single malt whiskey,” introduction, history, and production discussion. Internal retrieval: PDF sheets 358–366. On-screen “Page … of 224” labels belong to the captured ebook reader and are not certified print pagination. Original retrieval metadata retained below; historical and legal assertions remain source-attributed, not independently corroborated. Locator and supporting passage checked against both extracted text and rendered ebook-capture sheets during the complete sequential and visual review on 2026-08-27. Use as a tertiary synthesis; current-law, ownership, product, count, award, market, and causal claims require time-bounding or stronger corroboration. Excerpt audit history: Verified against the extracted text and rendered ebook-capture sheets during the complete sequential and visual review on 2026-08-27. The evidence is paraphrased; current-law, product, ownership, count, award, and market claims remain time-bounded or excluded. Fresh full-source audit September29: PDF358–366: coastal climate is not uniform across the Northwest;2021 ASM proposals superseded by federal standard effectiveJanuary19,2025.
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