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Citation(s) & Footnote(s)
Book(s)Whiskey Knowledge Library / Literature Notes
Main contribution
Smooth Ambler, WhistlePig, Bardstown Bourbon Company, and High West illustrate different ways to combine available stocks and establish a house profile. The article also includes producers choosing not to blend their sourced and own-made products.
Evidence and limitations
Age, provenance, grain recipe, maturation, and proportion change together in these examples; the reporting cannot isolate which variable causes preference. The article's Heaven Hill fire year is inconsistent with the producer's documented 7 November 1996 date. Correct that date in derivative notes, without altering the original PDF.
Application to the academy
Use as a production case study about constraints and repeated sensory evaluation, not a universal formula for combining young and old whiskey. Keep historical recipe proportions dated and attributed.
Scope and locator status
This note covers the supplied web capture, not an entire magazine issue. Use the article title and section headings for public citation; PDF sequence is an internal retrieval aid, not a printed page number. Sticky navigation obscures some lines in the capture, so final coverage verification remains open. Full PDF text and attachments remain private.
Final file QA — 2026-09-20
- All 12 supplied pages open, extract, and render.
- No inaccessible attachment or broken page was found; browser-interface remnants are source-capture artifacts.
- The Heaven Hill fire date conflict remains a source-level factual issue and is not treated as resolved by clean PDF rendering.
