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Written-content review completed; this is a tertiary discovery map, not publication clearance. Images, native snapshot attachment and browser settings remain unverified.
Source argument
The encyclopedia organizes bourbon around American origin, corn-based production, maturation, legal identity and commercial culture. Its composite account is not a single author's thesis.
Evidence map
Locator system: local 182-reading.txt, lines 1–235, derived from revision 1370374562. All written lines, references and further-reading entries reviewed; reading a bibliography does not mean its cited works were read.
Origins and lore — lines 1–26
The opening's proposed 1850s emergence of the name conflicts with a later 1824 newspaper reference. Recover the dated newspaper before assigning a first-use date. Distinguish original Virginia Bourbon County, later Kentucky boundaries, the Old Bourbon trading region and alternative Bourbon Street etymology.
Craig and Spears inventor narratives remain labeled traditions, not established invention. The Old Bourbon barrel-marking account is attributed to Cowdery; its underlying evidence and quoted wording have not been validated here.
Crow's sour-mash association should not become a first-invention claim. Separate backset/stillage from spent grain rather than inherit the article's collapsed terminology.
The Prohibition paragraph conflates ratification, implementation, medicinal bottling and production permissions. Its corporate succession list and 1928 production exception need original documentation. Likewise verify the wartime stoppage's dates and extent instead of repeating 1941 as a blanket cutoff.
Commercial and legal identity — lines 27–60
Keep the 1964 congressional resolution separate from a later National Bourbon Heritage Month resolution and from enforceable standards. The article itself distinguishes the resolution's actual wording from the later “native spirit” paraphrase.
Dated DISCUS figures combine bourbon and Tennessee whiskey; do not present them as bourbon-only or current. The 2025–26 tariffs, contraction, bankruptcies, inventories and pauses are leads requiring dated underlying reports, not a causal finding established by this review.
The export paragraph generalizes beyond the quoted rule's “exported in bond” wording. Check jurisdiction, transaction and current regulation. Bourbon, straight bourbon, blended bourbon and a blend of straight bourbons must remain distinct; percentages may be based on proof gallons, not simply finished liquid volume.
Do not imply additives are permitted in ordinary bourbon but prohibited only when straight. Age-statement, bond, foreign-market and Tennessee exceptions require their exact governing sources. The uncited EU three-year sentence is not cleared.
Limestone geology is not unique to Kentucky; producer promotional wording is not a geographic necessity. Preserve the dates and denominators behind Kentucky market-share claims. Tourism epithets are not analytical rankings.
Production, sensory and culinary use — lines 61–91
The proposed alternative-grain change is dated; verify current grain definitions. Separate column still, doubler and thumper. Wood extraction and maturation need the library's chemical literature rather than reducing flavor to caramelized sugars and vanillins.
High-rye and wheated flavor tendencies are hypotheses, not guarantees for every bottle. Age does not monotonically establish quality. Cask/barrel-proof terminology and transport restrictions need separate official checks; no shipping or safety guidance is derived here.
Barrel absorption figures and Devil's Cut specifications are attributed examples, not universal constants. Bottled-by wording alone does not reveal complete provenance.
The reported two-barrel Jefferson's voyage is a producer experiment, not conclusive evidence that historical transport improves whiskey. Cocktail and food references are discovery routes, not tested recipes.
Bibliography routing — lines 92–209
Reconcile existing Carson, Crowgey, Veach, Cowdery, Minnick, Mitenbuler and Podvia records before adding duplicates. Further reading also points to Carlton, Cecil, Copler/Holtkamp/Myles, McKeithan, Reed and Zoeller. These are leads, not newly processed sources.
Priority checks: Eric Reed's 2024 Bourbon, Black and White (DOI 10.1080/20549547.2024.2321848); Moss's naming investigation; the cited 1964 resolution; Romero's international-market interpretation; and original distillery/permit records. Numbered references and bibliography overlap, so reference count is not unique-source count.
Researcher synthesis
Route the material into origins and lore, Prohibition and wartime change, law and labeling, regional geography, production and maturation, sourcing transparency, market history and culinary use. Cross-check alongside No access and No access. No factual Excerpts, Citations or Zettels were promoted from these unchecked leads.
Assessment
Useful for scope and bibliography, insufficient as sole authority for contested dates, law, technical mechanisms or current statistics. Captions were read but image pixels were not. Local HTML is a recovery copy, not a verified Notion attachment. Full-width, TOC/discussions and inline-comment settings await browser verification.
Completion checklist
Preservation reconciliation — September 8, 2026
The original HTML snapshot is now included in the native Wikipedia-Captures-173-218.zip package on No access. Earlier preservation-pending language is superseded for that HTML only. Local original hashes and ZIP integrity were checked; native attachment presence was refetched. Remote images/assets were not bundled and a new cloud-byte comparison was not performed. Written-source reading does not establish that every cited work or illustration was reviewed. Other source-specific holds remain unchanged.
