The distillers as a searched negative, with its date span printed: 1880–2011, extended to November 2026

SPAN PRINTED: 1880 (CHAPMAN) — DECEMBER 2011 (FIRST BREWERY); MODERN PERMIT SWEEP TO NOVEMBER 2026

The banked negative existed but failed this row's form: no span was printed, and rectifiers, wholesale houses and stills were never distinguished. Both defects are repaired here, class by class, with the searches shown. The span first. The search runs from the first record that could name a distiller on this ground — Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907), whose township chapters were searched for tavern, inn, hotel, brewery, distillery and winery entries and named none for Harris or Clay — through the directory and press record the banked drink article searched, to December 2011, the month the ground's first alcohol producer of any class, a brewery, finally appears. The modern extension runs separately, below, to November 2026. Within 1880–2011 the classes distinguish as follows. Stills — a distillery proper, a plant making spirits: none named for either township in any source in the span; the farm era's cider and stills, if any existed, left no record that names them, and the banked leg's refusal to invent them stands. Rectifiers — houses that rectified, blended or compounded spirits made elsewhere, a distinct licence class in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century record: no rectifier is named for Clay or Harris in the county histories, the directories or the press record searched, and no rectifier's licence, advertisement or directory heading for this ground was returned by any search. Wholesale liquor houses — distributors selling at wholesale without making: likewise none named for either township in the span; the wholesale trade of the county sat in South Bend and Mishawaka, across the lines where the banked leg already places this ground's drinking and shopping. The modern sweep, run for this section: the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau's List of Permittees (the FOIA listing of FAA Act permittees, data as of November 10, 2026, updated weekly) is the register in which a Granger-seated distilled spirits plant, bonded winery or brewery would carry a federal permit; Bare Hands' brewing permit is the ground's known entry, and no distilled spirits plant at a Granger, Clay Township or Harris Township premises was identified in the permit record as searched through the TTB listing and its public permit-lookup mirrors, nor in the Indiana Alcohol & Tobacco Commission's public permit search as consulted. Printed as a whole, the negative reads: no distiller, rectifier or wholesale liquor house seated in Clay or Harris township, 1880–2011; and no federally permitted distilled spirits plant seated on this ground to November 2026. A negative without its span fails the leg; this one carries its span in its heading.

Sources:

1. Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907), township chapters searched for tavern, inn, hotel, brewery, distillery and winery entries: none named for Harris or Clay — as carried in this build's Food & Drink leg (banked), whose search record this article extends, not replaces.
2. This build's Food & Drink leg (banked): the predecessor test run against both county histories, the directories and the press record; first brewery December 2011.
3. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, List of Permittees (ttb.gov, FOIA listing; “Data as of November 10, 2026”; weekly updates), and the TTB permit-lookup record as mirrored from the same listing, consulted November 2026; Indiana Alcohol & Tobacco Commission, public permit search pages, consulted November 2026.
4. Searches run November 2026 distinguishing the three classes (distiller / rectifier / wholesale liquor house) against Clay and Harris townships in directory, licence and press terms: no entry returned for any class, as printed.