Distillery has new bourbon flavored by beaver secretion
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Tamworth Distilling says the secretion, called castoreum, has a history of being used as a flavoring and is on a small list of FDA ingredients called generally recognized as safe. [scr]Now, if you have a weak stomach, you may want to avoid this story...but chances are...you've had some of this stuff...A new bourbon called Eau De Musc from Tamworth Distilling in New Hampshire, gets some of its distinctive flavor from the beaver......specifically, from its castor anal sacs.Yeah, it's called castoreum and the yellow secretion is used by the beaver to mark its territory.Thing is...it's not a new discovery...it's been used for years because of its fruity flavor......added to foods like raspberry candy, ice cream, pudding and yup...alcohol.The distillery says on its website......castoreum "exhibits bright and fruit qualities and rich leathery notes along with creamy vanilla aroma," common among barrel-aged spirits.Other ingredients are raspberry, Canadian snakeroot, fir needles, birch bark and maple syrup.The Food and Drug Administration has castoreum on it's list of ingredients titled "generally recognized as safe."We have it on our list of definitely recognized as gross.[/scr]
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.041 | 0.009 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".