Once syrup, sugar, or alcoholic flavoring enters a blend, volume contraction, density, solubility, water, alcohol, and sugar contributions must be accounted for component by component.
Do not extend straight whiskey plus water equations to liqueur-like formulations. Use a full component ledger and reject plans that produce negative quantities, exceed available alcohol, or cross physical blending limits.
All three linked Literature Notes are Fireman works; the prior reference to other linked technical sources was inaccurate. Qualitative component accounting is useful, but independent support and original-page review are required. VolumeII critical audit flags invalid mass fractions, unvalidated ternary-temperature corrections and author/software limits. No approval of ABS calculations.
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.
Maturity checklist
Alcohol Blending review reopened — evidence boundary
Volume I extracted PDF82–110 supports distinguishing apparent proof, obscuration, dilution and additive composition, but its own quantitative treatment is unreliable: PDF98 confuses an empirical obscuration coefficient with solute density; PDF102 assumes an unspecifiedppm basis; PDF92–96 extends an80–100proof empirical relation outside its stated range. The reproduced appendix PDF220–222 states separate density and true-proof operations for solids-containing spirits, contradicting parts of the worked approach. This Zettel is a formulation-accounting principle, not approval of Fireman's calculator, historical legal limits or arbitrary flavor additions to straight whiskey. Original images and Volume II review remain open.
