The tasting chapter attributes bourbon's sensory profile to interacting choices in grain formulation, water, yeast, distillation, oak and aging, bottling proof, and filtration rather than to one ingredient or stage alone.
Locator type: Section
Reader locator: “How to Taste Bourbon,” “Flavor Profile”
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Source section: How to Taste Bourbon — Flavor Profile
A consumer-oriented overview organizes flavor influences across the production chain.
Useful secondary corroboration of the chain model; individual causal details remain simplified and require technical sources.
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