SPIRIT HOMELANDS

where the law lets Scotch, bourbon, cognac and tequila be made — seven spirits, three scales of place: a country, a part of one, a drawn zone

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

Formats: A4 · A3 · A2
What you get: Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject: drinks · everyone · reference · kitchen

Each spirit’s place is a quotation from its own rule: the Scotch Whisky Regulations 2009, the Irish Whiskey Act 1980, 27 CFR 5.143(b), the Canadian Food Compositional Standards 2.1.3(e), Decreto 6.871/2009 art. 53, the decree of 1 May 1909 (BNIC), and NOM-006-SCFI-2012 with the Declaration of 13 Oct 1977; cross-checked 2026-08-12 against the texts. The chart shows the law and does not tell anyone what to drink.

BOURBON OWES KENTUCKY NOTHING

Bourbon does not have to come from Kentucky. Rule 27 CFR 5.143(b) only requires distilling and aging in the United States — it names no state at all, and a New York or Texas bourbon stands equal to a Kentucky one before the law.

Irish whiskey is a spirit of two jurisdictions: the 1980 Act allows distilling “in the State or in Northern Ireland” — on both sides of the state border that runs across the island.

On the sheet

Each spirit’s place is a quotation from its own rule: the Scotch Whisky Regulations 2009, the Irish Whiskey Act 1980, 27 CFR 5.143(b), the Canadian Food Compositional Standards 2.1.3(e), Decreto 6.871/2009 art. 53, the decree of 1 May 1909 (BNIC), and NOM-006-SCFI-2012 with the Declaration of 13 Oct 1977; cross-checked 2026-08-12 against the texts. The chart shows the law and does not tell anyone what to drink.
Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 8 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

SPIRIT HOMELANDS

BOURBON OWES KENTUCKY NOTHING

On the sheet

Printing

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