A promising small blend is not final until a freshly reconstructed or larger batch is tasted against the retained laboratory sample and adjusted only through documented revisions.
For homogeneous commercial bottles and modest scale changes, divergence may be negligible; confirmation is still inexpensive insurance.
Representative samples, bottle variation, measurement error, and component heterogeneity can make the realized batch diverge from the prototype even when the arithmetic is correct.
Synthesized from the Joe Beatrice / Barrell Craft Spirits source cluster processed on 2026-08-29.
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