I found this article from Distillery Trail interesting as it brings up a few points that are still discussed today about hand made spirits. It is recipes for yeast written by JW Dant.
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Hand written yeast recipes from the 1890's
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The still is not a liar. Mash and ferment quality is 99.9% of your performance.