Content
Citation(s) & Footnote(s)
Book(s)No access / Whiskey Literature Notes Database (USWA)
One canonical Source: No access. Full reading does not validate every source assertion.
Source argument
Charcoal mellowing and label language differentiate Jack Daniel’s for consumers.
Evidence map
Coverage: The Lincoln County Process; Sour Mash; Can You Call Jack Daniel’s A Bourbon In The Bar?; Bourbon… Plus One. Lincoln County Process, Sour Mash and both closing discussion sections read in full. Local HTML preserves the article body.
Researcher synthesis
The headline and body use different meanings of bourbon; retain the distinction between marketing identity and legal production criteria.
Regulatory comparison: No access and 27 CFR 5.143, checked September 6, 2026.
Assessment
Current federal bourbon criteria use at least 51% corn and charred new oak, not more than 51% or exclusively American oak. Claims about Green’s introduction of filtration, Prichard’s continuity, black-label chronology and universal sour-mashing are not independently substantiated here.
Retain those historical claims as verification leads, not timeline facts. No unsupported origin or technique claim promoted.
