What This Source Explains
Rothbaum explains why Bottled-in-Bond offered buyers something more concrete than a producer’s claim of quality. Specified production conditions and supervised custody connected a label to information that could be checked.
Source And Locator
Noah Rothbaum, The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World’s Greatest Spirit (New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2025), displayed ebook pages 85–86, “Bottled-in-Bond American Whiskey.”
The passage occupies complete-copy PDF sheets 196–199. The retained older partial copy places it on PDF sheets 192–195, with the next-page caption and continuation on sheet 196. The two files have different sheet numbering; use the displayed page numbers and section title when consulting another copy.
What The Designation Can Tell You
The passage connects age, proof, a distilling season, distillery identification and bonded storage. It also describes Taylor’s advocacy. These are useful routes into production history and consumer trust; they do not make one person the sole author of the legislation or establish a universal taste ranking.
Historical Limits
Read the original 1897 Act, sections 1–2. The original law is the appropriate starting point for its historical requirements. Rothbaum’s discussion moves between nineteenth-century custody practices and later administration; do not collapse them into one unchanging procedure. Its market and pricing observations belong to the book’s publication context, not a current buying recommendation.
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