A controlled blend experiment should define its objective, feasible components and bounds, measurable responses, candidate model, and adequacy check before recipe coordinates are selected.
Exploratory tasting can precede formal response definition, but any later optimization or claim of improvement requires a versioned response plan.
Formula points are meaningful only relative to the question they must answer. This order prevents an arbitrary tasting flight from being mistaken for an experiment.
Synthesized from NIST/SEMATECH mixture-design guidance and bounded to a staged consumer-whiskey pilot.
A Zettel is one durable idea in your own words—not a quotation, source summary, or draft-book claim.
Atomic idea
State one complete idea. It should be understandable on its own and specific enough to connect to other notes.
Reasoning
Explain why the idea is true or useful in Rationale and Implications. Record meaningful objections or exceptions in Counterpoints.
Provenance
Connect one or more Literature Notes. Direct source relations are legacy-only; trace evidence through the literature-note and excerpt chain.
Connections
Apply approved Tags for retrieval and one or more Themes only when the note genuinely advances those interpretive threads.