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Fresh reading audit: all 317 supplied PDF sheets read and visually surveyed, including appendices, glossary, index terms and biographies. The current 32 Excerpt, 32 Citation and 22 Zettel relations are preserved; their source-contribution audit and correction readbacks are complete. Reading completion is not workflow completion.

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Source argument

Reigler presents Kentucky bourbon as an intertwined production system, geographic network, commercial institution, and heritage-tourism culture. Distillery profiles and travel guidance show how production sites, people, brands, lineages, landscapes, and visitor practices meet.

Full-source evidence map

Scope, history, and regional structure

• The guide records a dated 2020 bourbon-industry and tourism snapshot — dated 2020 industry and tourism snapshot; Introduction, “Read This First!” — industry growth and tourism snapshot.
• Bourbon origin stories are presented as disputed evidence problems — origin stories treated as disputed evidence problems; Chapter 1, “Bourbon Basics: Made in America,” discussion of bourbon origins and competing explanations.
• Whiskey Row coupled transport, rectification, headquarters, and packaged trust — Louisville/Whiskey Row as a transport, office, rectification, distribution, and packaged-trust network; Chapter 2, “Louisville: The Beginning of Bourbon Country,” paragraphs following the Pendennis Club photograph.
• The 2020 craft-tour chapter records rapid growth and geographic dispersion — 2020 craft-growth and geographic-dispersion snapshot; Chapter 7, “Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour,” introduction and distillery profiles.

Flavor and sensory practice

• Bourbon flavor is described as a multistage production outcome — bourbon flavor as a multistage outcome; “How to Taste Bourbon,” “Flavor Profile”.
• Tasting vocabulary supports comparison without making palates identical — shared vocabulary without identical palates; “How to Taste Bourbon,” “Descriptors: Vanilla, Caramel, and More,” paragraph beginning “Everyone’s palate is different”.
• Four Roses uses a two-by-five recipe matrix for controlled differentiation — Four Roses' recipe matrix and sensory-suggestion risk; “The Master Distiller,” Four Roses laboratory comparison of mash bills and yeast strains.

Sites, organizations, and provenance

• Distillery visitor sites combine production and hospitality functions, Brown-Forman campus combines offices, bottling, and warehouses, Stitzel-Weller combines tours, production, bottling, storage, and repair history, and Buffalo Trace combines production, storage, offices, interpretation, and events — four campus inventories document combined production, storage, offices, visitor interpretation, museums, tasting, and event functions; Chapter 2, “Louisville: The Beginning of Bourbon Country,” Old Forester Distillery description beginning “The 100 block of West Main”; Chapter 2, “The Shively Distilleries Today,” “Brown-Forman”; Chapter 2, “The Stitzel-Weller Distillery,” description of the standard tour; Chapter 3, Buffalo Trace profile, visitor-center and campus bullet list.
• Stitzel-Weller's site, brands, recipes, and ownership followed different lineages — Stitzel-Weller's property, brand, recipe, ownership, and production lineages diverge; Chapter 2, “The Stitzel-Weller Distillery”.
• Master-distiller authority sits above distributed quality work — distributed quality work and master-distiller responsibility; “The Master Distiller,” opening explanation of responsibility and Four Roses laboratory visit.
• Four Roses separates distillation from aging and narrows warehouse temperature gradients — Four Roses separates distillation from barreling, aging, and bottling; Chapter 5, Four Roses tour description and “Cox’s Creek Tour”.
• Collaborative distilling separates facility work from brand and blend authorship — collaborative distilling separates facility work from brand, blend, and finishing authorship; Chapter 6, “Bardstown Bourbon Company,” paragraphs beginning “BBC’s specialty”.
• Heaven Hill preserved continuity through shared capacity, retained yeast, and a new plant — Heaven Hill recovery crossed yeast continuity, outside capacity, acquisition, and rebuilt infrastructure; Chapter 6, Heaven Hill profile, account of the 1996 fire and recovery.