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Source argument

Curtis follows rum through changing economic and cultural systems. The book's central value is continuity: sugar and Atlantic trade, tavern consumption, grain-spirit competition, temperance, tourism, war, branding and craft reinvention. Rum is his narrative lens, not a sufficient explanation of every event.

Canonical Source No access. Author Wayne Curtis.

Evidence map

ABR01 — Rum as interpretive lens and constructed authenticity

PDF 6-14. Curtis contrasts a reconstructed Philadelphia tavern serving modern spiced rum with a themed Cuban venue pursuing authentic mint/cane technique. His thesis is history changes rum, not a monocausal rum-changed-the-world thesis.

Limits: Author interpretation and visits are time-bound; claims of colonial rum flavor speculative; no modern legal definition inferred.

Evidence ABR01 — Rum as interpretive lens and constructed authenticity · Citation Curtis2018 ABR01 — Rum as interpretive lens and constructed authenticity.

ABR02 — Rum origins and sugar-economy evidence

PDF 16-27. Author explicitly refuses a single proven rum inventor/location; surveys Barbados, Hispanic Caribbean, Brazil and older hypotheses. Ligon's 1647-1650 residence/1657 book and named deeds offer document leads. Barbados settlement1627, sugar transplantation1493, mid17c rum diffusion framed as book claims.

Limits: 1639 toast,1652 rumbullion,1658 deed and1703 MountGay record require direct source checks; earliest surviving mention not proof of invention. Pages23-24 fermentation limit and distillation chronology technically oversimplified.

Evidence ABR02 — Rum origins and sugar-economy evidence · Citation Curtis2018 ABR02 — Rum origins and sugar-economy evidence.

ABR03 — Waste valorization, early production and market quality

PDF 25-35. Molasses/scummings became rum income; historic dunder/fermentation/still management, single vs double distillation and cask travel contrasted. Raw-spirit harshness and regional signature tied to contemporary observations; aging commands premium in cited account.

Limits: Historic recipes and medical prescriptions are not actionable advice. Attribution essential for racist labor descriptions and anecdotes. No endorsement of unsafe additions, unclean equipment, lead or medical claims.

Evidence ABR03 — Waste valorization, early production and market quality · Citation Curtis2018 ABR03 — Waste valorization, early production and market quality.

ABR04 — Pirates, privateers, commercial mythology

PDF 38-52. Morgan's historical violence and disputed chronicles contrasted with later Captain Morgan branding; early Spanish targets yielded wine/brandy, later British trade brought rum. Exquemelin is explicitly inaccurate and challenged in libel proceedings; Blackbeard skull punchbowl remains untraced lore.

Limits: Do not convert narrator's colorful battle details or pirate names/ships into verified timeline facts; use as leads. Spiced variant1984 versus brand1945 are distinct.

Evidence ABR04 — Pirates, privateers, commercial mythology · Citation Curtis2018 ABR04 — Pirates, privateers, commercial mythology.

ABR05 — Naval grog, provisioning, controlled dilution and literary memory

PDF 52-60. Vernon's1740 order is described as four water to one rum, split distribution with supervised mixing;1756 codification; ration reductions1823/1850; BlackTotDay31July1970; Pusser1980. TreasureIsland1881serial/1883book and later imagery reshape pirate associations.

Limits: Book's1755citrus requirement and1816hydrometer invention wording need verification; 1655-to1970 is315years, not printed325. Grogcard37 is2oz in8ozglass (=1:3water approximately), unlike1740 ratio1:4. No gunpowder proof testing instructions promoted.

Evidence ABR05 — Naval grog, provisioning, controlled dilution and literary memory · Citation Curtis2018 ABR05 — Naval grog, provisioning, controlled dilution and literary memory.

ABR06 — Colonial beverage landscape and tavern politics

PDF 62-83. Beer,cider,wine,smallscale grain/fruit distillation preceded imported rum. Rum became pay,currency,medical belief and everyday commodity. Tavern regulated prices/measurements and commercial drinks innovation supported mixed-class political networks; women notably excluded except certain lodging/operating roles.

Limits: Pages65/89earlyUSdistillation claims need verification. Absolute-alcohol consumption estimates73imprecise; no currenthealth endorsement. Generalized unsafe-water story and Indigenous alcohol-naivety narrative not uncritically adopted.

Evidence ABR06 — Colonial beverage landscape and tavern politics · Citation Curtis2018 ABR06 — Colonial beverage landscape and tavern politics.

ABR07 — Coercive trade and Indigenous resistance

PDF 68-73. Liquor used to manipulate fur/land negotiations, imperial alliances and sexual exploitation; source includes Indigenous complaints and bans subverted by commercial interests. Needed context for subsequent whiskey frontier trade.

Limits: Colonial eyewitness depictions are biased, not neutral descriptions of peoples; avoid essentializing Indigenous behavior or reducing dispossession to alcohol alone. Direct testimony provenance should be checked before quotes.

Evidence ABR07 — Coercive trade and Indigenous resistance · Citation Curtis2018 ABR07 — Coercive trade and Indigenous resistance.

ABR08 — Colonial mixed drinks and heated flip

PDF 75-78. Acrelius drink catalogue and tavern ledgers support diverse rum combinations predating Jerry Thomas. Distinguish loggerhead-heated beer-rum sweetened flip from modern egg-flip category; colonial drinks include shrub,bombo,sling,syllabub,calibogus,sampson.

Limits: Naming/formula variants retained; no guarantee of etymology or safe hot-metal practice.

Evidence ABR08 — Colonial mixed drinks and heated flip · Citation Curtis2018 ABR08 — Colonial mixed drinks and heated flip.

ABR09 — Medford, molasses regulation and Revolution

PDF 85-103. Rum manufacturing, differential island supplies, smuggling, MolassesAct1733 and SugarAct1764 connect Atlantic supply with colonial politics. Medford regional reputation and Hall/Lawrence continuity offer brands/place leads. Rum provision/currency fed armies and shortages affected trade.

Limits: Revere rum stop remains plausible but unproven, reenactment not evidence. Quantities/counts competing estimates. Narrative'sStampAct placementafter1766 andValleyForgeDecember1778 chronology require check;firstblood1775claim qualified pendingcounterexamples. No monocausal revolution claim.

Evidence ABR09 — Medford, molasses regulation and Revolution · Citation Curtis2018 ABR09 — Medford, molasses regulation and Revolution.

ABR10 — Punch, slavery and the limits of triangle diagrams

PDF 105-121. Punch recipes vary with trade routes and ingredients; the Sally1764-65 case has specific manifests and mortality testimony. Curtis critiques a single-ship/single-circuit NewEngland triangle and its inflated economic role while acknowledging rum/slavery links.

Limits: Treat denial of completed circuits and aggregate profitability as Curtis/McCusker historiographic arguments, not proof slavery was peripheral or harmless. Quantitative regional shares need denominator/period checks; distinguish shipping leg from connected Atlantic economic system. JohnWinthrop1682 attribution andRevere1767bowl date require verification.

Evidence ABR10 — Punch, slavery and the limits of triangle diagrams · Citation Curtis2018 ABR10 — Punch, slavery and the limits of triangle diagrams.

ABR11 — Rum's decline and whiskey's ascent

PDF 123-131. Post-Revolution trade barriers and molasses cost, local-national purchasing attitudes, interior grain surplus and transport density made grain spirits attractive. Brown1791gin retooling and1802excise repeal lead into early19c high consumption.

Limits: Estimates compare different populations/denominators. Pages129-130 Coffey1826 and purity/barrel-aging explanation oversimplified, not adopted as chemistry; compare validated production sources. First distillery/innovation assertions not verified.

Evidence ABR11 — Rum's decline and whiskey's ascent · Citation Curtis2018 ABR11 — Rum's decline and whiskey's ascent.

ABR12 — Temperance institutions, rhetoric and Prohibition

PDF 132-145. BenjaminRush1785; local societies1808/1809/1813;1833pledges;WCTU1874;Maine1851;ASL1893/1895;Wheeler andindustrialbackers;1917Congress,1918-19ratification,1920effect. DemonRum often means all alcohol, not literal rum. Campaign rhetoric, immigrant/class/gender tensions and saloonpolitics distinct layers.

Limits: Historicmedicalclaims/spontaneouscombustion/adulteration accusations not scientific facts. TomCollins/Rickey andTomandJerry priority claims141need checking;1851firststateprohibition qualification andNationlastcrusade uncertain. 1919ratification describedless-than-yearafterCongress conflicts1917;effectivedate wording/exemptions oversimplified. No legaladvice.

Evidence ABR12 — Temperance institutions, rhetoric and Prohibition · Citation Curtis2018 ABR12 — Temperance institutions, rhetoric and Prohibition.

ABR13 — Cuban tourism, Bacardi and daiquiri

PDF 147-169. Prohibition redirected tourism and bartender migration to Havana; Bacardi filtering/blending/casks and branding represent product consistency. Daiquiri origins treated as rival Cox/Shafter myths; Johnson1909 andConstantino/Hemingway accounts are documentaryleads. Repeal1933 revived supply,consolidation,marketing;1936Bacardicocktaillitigation and1937mix/blender convenience contrast craft.

Limits: Coxsingleinventionnotsettled;Hemingway anecdotes/brandmedicalstories attributed. Neutral-to-barreltechnicalclaims not endorsed. SloppyJoe'sname lore; firstairline1920,PanAm1927route,MaxfieldParrishBacardibuilding and2000preProhibitionKentuckydistilleries figures need verification. Source'sbroadProhibitionallproductionban ignores exemptions.

Evidence ABR13 — Cuban tourism, Bacardi and daiquiri · Citation Curtis2018 ABR13 — Cuban tourism, Bacardi and daiquiri.

ABR14 — WWII whiskey shortages and rum substitution

PDF 171-174. Curtis describes1942distilleryconversion,stockdrawdown,control-state rationing,increasedwhiskeyblendsusing importedneutralspirits andrumdemand; distributor tie-ins pushed low-quality rum. Distinguish USblendedwhiskey categoryfromall-spirit consumercustom blends.

Limits: 128plants,500milliongallons,1946blend87percent andindustrialproductpurpose need originalstatisticschecks;butadiene/aviationfuel linkage suspect. Agave describedcactusincorrect; nohealthadviceorunsafeadulterationinstructions.

Evidence ABR14 — WWII whiskey shortages and rum substitution · Citation Curtis2018 ABR14 — WWII whiskey shortages and rum substitution.

ABR15 — Bitters, softdrinks, wartime taste and manufactured origins

PDF 175-188. Angosturaproductionvisit,secretformulanon-disclosure,1824Siegertandmisfitlabellore;Peychaudcoquetier explicitlydebunkedbybirthchronology. Bitters arepartofearlycocktaildefinition; soda commercialization andCokeGIlogistics expandmixing. CubaLibre affidavit byBacardipublicist flaggedconflict of interest; calypsoborrowinglawsuit returnscredit.

Limits: 1806isdefinitionnotnecessarilyfirstuse; manydatedclaims and1940shipsdeal/1812Capitolburning requirechecks. Preserve attribution forcompanyvisits andbrandclaims; no songlyricsreproduced innotes.

Evidence ABR15 — Bitters, softdrinks, wartime taste and manufactured origins · Citation Curtis2018 ABR15 — Bitters, softdrinks, wartime taste and manufactured origins.

ABR16 — Postwar rum marketing and the rise of light spirits

PDF 189-193. Curtis describes surplus, price wars, Puerto Rican maturation requirements, tax-funded advertising, Rumster recipe promotions and increasingly light/dry tastes. Vodka's growth is a comparative context for American whiskey's midcentury market.

Limits: Book-era legal, market-share and ownership figures are not current data. Compare Herlihy before using the compressed Smirnoff/Heublein origin account; marketing claims about breath or health are not endorsed.

Evidence ABR16 — Postwar rum marketing and the rise of light spirits · Citation Curtis2018 ABR16 — Postwar rum marketing and the rise of light spirits.

ABR17 — Tiki as constructed culture and commercial recipe system

PDF 195-211. Beach, Sunny Sund and Bergeron developed theatrical venues, encoded recipes, fresh-juice standards and regionally differentiated rum bases. Postwar tourism, Hawaii imagery, decline and later archival revival form distinct phases.

Limits: Commercial Polynesian fantasy is not ethnographic description. Zombie origin and 1964 World's Fair account need checking; oral testimony, recollection and surviving recipes have different evidential weight. No flaming or improvised-distillation practice promoted.

Evidence ABR17 — Tiki as constructed culture and commercial recipe system · Citation Curtis2018 ABR17 — Tiki as constructed culture and commercial recipe system.

ABR18 — Complementary rum blending and recipe lineage

PDF 203-209, 237-240, 257-258. Curtis reports repeated rum-blend trials before layering juice, and complementary regional styles in Beach's drinks. Banks, OFTD and Privateer add modern commercial examples. Bergeron's recalled1944 single17-year rum differs from the two-rum Mai Tai variants in the book; Zombie's recovered three-rum formula is a separate lineage.

Limits: Producer and bartender accounts support practice, not controlled sensory superiority or general ratios for neat American whiskey. PDF194 uses half-ounce lime,257 one ounce; preserve both versions. Name priority is not formula identity.

Evidence ABR18 — Complementary rum blending and recipe lineage · Citation Curtis2018 ABR18 — Complementary rum blending and recipe lineage.

ABR19 — Historical bottles, authenticity and trademark narratives

PDF 213-225. Remsberg's collection provides attributed observations of historic New England and Cuban rums. Havana visits, uncertain Hemingway inscription, Mojito revival and the competing Havana Club claims show how physical bottles, tourism, corporate memory and brand ownership diverge.

Limits: Historical-bottle taste is anecdotal and bottle-era specific; Mojito farmworker origin is the author's hypothesis. Trademark dates, ownership and personnel require publication-time checking. The Malibu-siblings referent on224 is potentially erroneous.

Evidence ABR19 — Historical bottles, authenticity and trademark narratives · Citation Curtis2018 ABR19 — Historical bottles, authenticity and trademark narratives.

ABR20 — American craft rum, barrel management and finishing

PDF 226-231. Prichard's Tennessee rum story, Privateer and Maggie Campbell's elevage, revived cane production, Joy Spence blends, Foursquare and Plantation finishing illustrate American and Caribbean responses to craft demand.

Limits: Prichard's colonial barrel-cleaning story is a producer claim, not demonstrated history. Salty-air/barrel-thickness mechanism, market-size figures, ownership and current bottlings unverified. Author preferences are not blind ratings.

Evidence ABR20 — American craft rum, barrel management and finishing · Citation Curtis2018 ABR20 — American craft rum, barrel management and finishing.

ABR21 — Accelerated aging and limits of chemical equivalence

PDF 231-233. Curtis describes a December2016 Lost Spirits visit, Bryan Davis's light-and-wood experiments and six-day rum; he says the tasted result was not an exact replica of traditionally aged rum.

Limits: A vendor's claimed molecular fingerprint match is not independent sensory validation, elapsed age or legal age. Patent/technical claims are leads for direct verification, not consumer blending or distilling instructions.

Evidence ABR21 — Accelerated aging and limits of chemical equivalence · Citation Curtis2018 ABR21 — Accelerated aging and limits of chemical equivalence.

ABR22 — Rum classification and dated product profiles

PDF 234-241. The thumbnail guide distinguishes color from age, cane juice from molasses, pot from column and blended distillates. Fifteen named profile sections describe rum styles, casks and uses; source-era products are indexed without populating Whiskey Profiles with non-whiskies.

Limits: Banks's description as unaged, El Dorado's blanket pot-still characterization, Santa Teresa's stated fifteen-year age, Niesson spelling and broad still/flavor assertions require checks. No current specifications or ownership inferred.

Evidence ABR22 — Rum classification and dated product profiles · Citation Curtis2018 ABR22 — Rum classification and dated product profiles.

ABR23 — Recipe variants, balancing and whiskey crossovers

PDF 242-262. The appendix has36 drink entries plus named pineapple-rum component and nested oleo, honey/cane syrup and Don's Mix references. Stone Fence, Egg Nog, Milk Punch, Old-Fashioned and Manhattan-style Pirate's Cocktail connect rum with whiskey service. Daiquiri discussion explicitly makes ingredient variability and adjustment part of balance.

Limits: Recipes are source versions, not tested house instructions. Hot Buttered Rum method includes rum ambiguously in bulk mix; Milk Punch vanilla amount is unusually large; Dark and Stormy contains printed66 artifact. Separate historical/legal claims from recipes; raw eggs, dairy and infusions not given storage assurances.

Evidence ABR23 — Recipe variants, balancing and whiskey crossovers · Citation Curtis2018 ABR23 — Recipe variants, balancing and whiskey crossovers.

ABR24 — Research provenance and bibliography

PDF 263-273. Acknowledgments identify Conroy, McCusker, Mintz, O'Shaughnessy and Pack as key influences. Bibliography covers colonial taverns, sugar/slavery, naval rum, Prohibition, whiskey and cocktail manuals, including Carson and Crowgey already relevant to the corpus.

Limits: Bibliographic listing is a discovery lead, not evidence these works were read in this intake. Page-specific quotations from these underlying works require consulting the originals; bibliography contains apparent title/spelling errors.

Evidence ABR24 — Research provenance and bibliography · Citation Curtis2018 ABR24 — Research provenance and bibliography.

ABR25 — Edition, author and non-content pages

PDF 1-5, 274-275. Cover/title/copyright identify Wayne Curtis's revised-and-updated2018 edition, with earlier2006/2007 copyright and eISBN9780525575030. Author biography is dated source metadata; final publisher page is promotional.

Limits: PDFmetadata2023 is conversion metadata, not publication year. Image-only cover/title visually inspected; watermark and promotional links are content, not workflow instructions.

Evidence ABR25 — Edition, author and non-content pages · Citation Curtis2018 ABR25 — Edition, author and non-content pages.

Researcher synthesis

American whiskey did not emerge in isolation. Rum connects its story to Atlantic commodities, imported molasses, colonial drinking institutions and local grain economics. Curtis's whisky-transition discussion is consonant with an existing multi-source Zettel, but his simplified transport account must retain that Zettel's qualifications. Temperance rhetoric frequently used rum to mean liquor generally; a literal-rum reading would distort whiskey history.

Prohibition also displaced hospitality knowledge, tourism and consumer demand across borders. Postwar rum and vodka marketing helps explain competition for whiskey without reducing the story to taste alone. Anecdotes, brand affidavits and retrospective bartender recollections require a different evidentiary label from contemporaneous documents. The author expressly questions some famous origins while confidently repeating other doubtful dates; neither entertaining prose nor a bibliography is universal verification.

The most relevant practical blending passage is PDF204–206: repeated component trials, followed by other cocktail layers. Banks, OFTD, barrel selection and multi-rum recipes expand that comparison. These illustrate goals, ingredient roles and iterative formulation, not a guaranteed synergy, optimal bourbon ratio or proof that a young blend reproduces an old spirit. The accelerated-aging visit is particularly important as a limit: a claimed chemical fingerprint and the author's favorable taste impression do not establish sensory equivalence or elapsed age.

Existing notes on recipe provenance, target-relative components, rum-to-whiskey economics and Prohibition are extended without changing their original statements or maturity. The book's rum profiles remain comparative records in this Literature Note, not new entries masquerading as whiskies. No History page, public website or user trial was edited.

Assessment

Coverage: all275 supplied pages read and visually checked; all front/back matter included. Source class: secondary historical synthesis with some primary interview/visit observations. Excerpt verification is fidelity to this source, not verification of its underlying archives. The bibliography is an index of discovery leads; its cited books have not been processed merely because they appear in this PDF.

Publication needs claim-specific corroboration for early distillation dates, firsts, slavery/economic estimates, legal and ratification dates, named product composition, current ownership and technical mechanisms. Recipe use needs explicit treatment of source inconsistencies and measured adaptation. None of these limitations is a missing-file or unread-page hold.

Recipe and production discrepancy register

• PDF15: historical rum definition attributed to Jamaica and Barbados1937; not present law.
• PDF37: chapter Grog serving proportions differ from the four-water-to-one-rum naval order described on52–60.
• PDF194/257: Mai Tai lime amounts differ;1944 retrospective single-rum story is another version, not the same formula.
• PDF212/261–262: vigorous versus light mint muddling and sugar treatment differ.
• PDF244: Hot Buttered Rum's bulk mixing method and per-serving rum amount are ambiguous.
• PDF248–249: vanilla-extract amount unusually high; retained as printed, not silently normalized.
• PDF256: printed66 in ginger-beer line confirmed visually; unresolved editorial artifact.
• PDF234–241: color does not determine age; blanket pot-still, product-age and white/unaged claims require product-level verification. Source spelling Niesson retained in index pending authority reconciliation.
• Historic unsafe practices, purported medicinal effects, storage claims, brand superiority and vendor aging claims are not adopted as advice.

Chapter cards and ancillary retrieval

• Historical definition — Rum; PDF15; Jamaica/Barbados1937 attribution.
• Chapter drink card — Grog; PDF37.
• Chapter drink card — Flip (heated historical style); PDF61.
• Chapter drink card — Bombo; PDF84.
• Chapter drink card — Punch; PDF104.
• Chapter drink card — Prune Water (non-alcoholic historic); PDF122.
• Chapter drink card — Daiquiri; PDF146.
• Chapter drink card — Rum and Coke; PDF170.
• Chapter drink card — Mai Tai (chapter card); PDF194.
• Chapter drink card — Mojito (chapter card); PDF212.

Appendix drink retrieval index

• Recipe 01 — Classic Punch; PDF 242-243. Sour/sweet/strong/weak; Wondrich-attributed1:1:4:6 alternative; sugar mass and finished yield not inferred.
• Recipe 02 — Fish House Punch; PDF 243. Rum/cognac/peach-brandy; historic club attribution not independently verified.
• Recipe 03 — Hot Buttered Rum; PDF 244. Bulk batter versus per-mug rum ambiguity; operational clarification required.
• Recipe 04 — Pineapple Syllabub; PDF 244-245. Modern colonial-style adaptation using nested pineapple rum and honey syrup.
• Recipe 05 — Medford Rum Punch; PDF 245-246. Two-rum interpretation attributed to Thomas1887; not proof1887was first manual.
• Recipe 06 — Stone Fence; PDF 246. Rum/cider; historical whiskey option distinguished from author's rum preference.
• Recipe 07 — Rum Toddy; PDF 246-247. Beebe1946-attributed version; hot water quantity unspecified.
• Recipe 08 — Egg Nog; PDF 247-248. Chris Hannah adaptation; rum version differs from bourbon/cognac preference; pasteurized eggs listed.
• Recipe 09 — Ti’ Punch; PDF 248. Agricole, lime and cane syrup; small-quantity and dilution variability.
• Recipe 10 — Rum Milk Punch; PDF 248-249. Bourbon/rum comparative family; unusually large vanilla-extract amount retained as source discrepancy.
• Recipe 11 — Rum Old-Fashioned; PDF 249. Whiskey-family adaptation, orange bitters versus aromatic-bitters substitution.
• Recipe 12 — Daiquiri; PDF 249-250. Appendix version; variable lime, sugar and rum require adjustment.
• Recipe 13 — Bacardi Cocktail; PDF 250. Grenadine Daiquiri variation; trademark story is not current legal advice.
• Recipe 14 — El Floridita Daiquiri; PDF 250-251. 1934 manual attribution, maraschino and crushed ice.
• Recipe 15 — Pirate’s Cocktail; PDF 251. Rum Manhattan-style ratio; Esquire attribution.
• Recipe 16 — Rum Bronx; PDF 251-252. Sweet/dry vermouth and orange; Third Rail name variant.
• Recipe 17 — Rum Collins; PDF 252. Sour/highball with soda.
• Recipe 18 — Planter’s Punch; PDF 252-253. Embury1948-attributed version; not the chapter Punch formula.
• Recipe 19 — Cuba Libre; PDF 253. Lime-forward distinction from chapter Rum and Coke.
• Recipe 20 — Myrtle Bank Punch; PDF 253-254. TraderVic1948 interpretation; maraschino float.
• Recipe 21 — MacArthur Cocktail; PDF 254. Light-rum base with small dark-rum addition; egg-white quantity unspecified.
• Recipe 22 — Hemingway Daiquiri; PDF 254-255. Sweetened modern version distinguished from Hemingway's reported preference.
• Recipe 23 — Mary Pickford; PDF 255. Rum/pineapple/grenadine/maraschino.
• Recipe 24 — El Presidente; PDF 255-256. Rum/vermouth/grenadine; curaçao optional in this version.
• Recipe 25 — Dark and Stormy; PDF 256. Printed66 before ginger beer unresolved; source not silently corrected.
• Recipe 26 — Hurricane; PDF 256-257. Split light/dark rum and fruit; wartime origin is source attribution.
• Recipe 27 — Mai Tai; PDF 257. Two-rum version; one-ounce lime differs from half-ounce chapter card194.
• Recipe 28 — Zombie; PDF 258. Berry-reconstructed1934 version; three specified rum roles; not proven whiskey blending model.
• Recipe 29 — Jungle Bird; PDF 258-259. Dark rum, bitter modifier and pineapple; origin claim unverified.
• Recipe 30 — Hai Karate; PDF 259. JeffBerry attribution; maple syrup modifier.
• Recipe 31 — Piña Colada; PDF 259-260. Light/dark split and coconut cream, not coconut milk.
• Recipe 32 — Parisian Blonde; PDF 260. Rum/orange/cream equal-part structure.
• Recipe 33 — Mexican Blonde; PDF 260-261. Coffee-liqueur variation; DeGroff attribution.
• Recipe 34 — Caipirinha; PDF 261. Cachaça, lime and sugarcane syrup; comparative cane-spirit drink.
• Recipe 35 — Mojito; PDF 261-262. Light muddling differs from chapter212 vigorous instruction.
• Recipe 36 — The Lytton Fizz; PDF 262. JohnMyers2005 attribution; mint, basil, falernum and ginger ale.

Nested components

Oleo saccharum243; Hot Buttered Rum batter244; honey syrup245; pineapple rum245; cane/Demerara syrup248; Don's Mix #2 and cinnamon-syrup reference258. These are nested preparations, not extra independent drink entries. No storage-safety guarantee inferred.

Source-era rum profile index

• Profile 01 — Appleton Estate; PDF 236. Jamaica; Signature and Rare Blend12 author-era preferences.
• Profile 02 — Banks; PDF 236-237. Multinational blend; white/unaged terminology needs product-specific checking.
• Profile 03 — Rhum Barbancourt; PDF 237. Haiti; cane juice and French oak as described; age/star claims dated.
• Profile 04 — Ron del Barrilito; PDF 237. Puerto Rico; two/three-star roles and Spanish-cask claims dated.
• Profile 05 — Rhum Clément and Rhum J.M; PDF 237-238. Martinique; agricole, aged rum and Créole Shrubb; current ownership/specs not verified.
• Profile 06 — El Dorado; PDF 238. Guyana; age variants and author preference; blanket pot-still claim not adopted.
• Profile 07 — Foursquare; PDF 238. Barbados; blends and cask finishing, not fresh availability advice.
• Profile 08 — Hamilton; PDF 238-239. Sourced West Indian high-ester rums; author-era portfolio.
• Profile 09 — Mount Gay; PDF 239. Barbados; Eclipse, ExtraOld and1703; pot/column blending described.
• Profile 10 — Niesson [source spelling]; PDF 239. Martinique; likely Neisson; verify canonical spelling and production claim before profiles.
• Profile 11 — Pampero Aniversario; PDF 239-240. Venezuela; sensory impressions and stated four-to-six-year blend, not current spec.
• Profile 12 — Plantation; PDF 240. Source-era brand name; regional blending and cognac-cask finishing; OFTD.
• Profile 13 — Privateer; PDF 240. UnitedStates; MaggieCampbell-era barrel program, NavyYard andQueen'sShare.
• Profile 14 — Ron Zacapa Centenario; PDF 240-241. Guatemala; changed23-year labeling discussed; do not infer minimum age or current ownership.
• Profile 15 — Santa Teresa1796; PDF 241. Venezuela; claimed15-year/French-oak description needs verification, not imported as current age.

Completion checklist

• [x]25 located evidence units;36 appendix drinks and15 profile sections indexed.