What do they with the liquor they take off the shelves? Stick it in a warehouse somewhere and wait?
It’s sold on consignment, so they just ship it all back to the producers.
I’m a simple guy who likes Jim Beam Black label, Jack, Woodford Reserve, etc. I’ve been swearing off American whiskeys since this tariff shit started. I just bought Bushmills for the first time and have been enjoying it.
I’m all for some suggestions. I’m not picky, so single malt, blended or whatever is fine. I just like to drink on the rocks or neat and want to enjoy the flavors. I’d be open to blue state whiskeys otherwise anything else is good.
I finished a giant bottle of that niagra whiskey last week and it was decent.
Thinking of trying a Japanese brand next week
Oh, nice! I’ll look for the Niagara one. What Japanese brand are you looking at?
I live in the Chicago area and we have a chain called Binny’s that carries a ton of alcohols from all over. I’d love to see if I can find these.
For relaxing times, I make it Suntory times.
Excellent! I’ll give that one a try.
An entire thread about the consequences of voting Republican, without a leopards eating faces meme? Did we think that only applies to humans? Or did no one tell me that meme is over and gone?
I would bet that even once American brands are back on the store shelves, a lot of people are not going to go back to buying them.
“That means hard-working Americans—corn farmers, truckers, distillery workers, barrel makers, bartenders, servers and the communities and businesses built around Kentucky Bourbon will suffer.”
I think this part was supposed to make us feel sorry for them, but to me this says: “That means that REPUBLICANS will suffer.” Give us some credit, you might know shit about Canada, but Canadians know the demographics of Trump voters.
God dammit, I hate this deflection. Oh no, you aren’t hurting the company, your hurting the workers.
Fuck that noise. If our government was doing its job, it would have protections in place for workers.
Full stop!
I can’t! Tempus is fugiting!
Soooo that means it’ll be cheaper in america right? You know supply is higher. /s
Prices in america never go down
Getting on the shelf is no simple task. Getting BACK on the shelf? A lot worse. And all because two spoiled toddlers think their inheritance plus time creating more money means they aren’t dumb motherfucks.
I think youre underestimating the amount of toddler minds behind all this. But yeah, the main two most visible ones.
There just a lot more of those toddlers, lot greedier and almost even intelligent idiots behind them curtains who don’t want to be known in any association to the the two most prominent toddlers
A lot of those hard-working 'Muricans voted for Krasnov, so I wouldn’t worry about ever buying American again. Unfortunately, I’m in the USA, so my options seem to be getting more and more limited. Unless I win a lottery. But I’d have to drive like 100+ km to another state to buy lottery tickets.
A lot didn’t and are forced in the area. No republican usually crosses 60% of the vote so that means that 1 in 3 people are democrat in Red States.
I’m in a red state… It’s 27% Democrat here.
But it doesn’t matter, the gerrymandering ensures that Rs won’t be gone for ages
As an American whiskey drinker, good.
I’ve also committed to buying only Blue State whiskey. My last two bottles were CA and WA.
I’d love recommendations for what to seek out next.
Local stuff. I’m a gin drinker. There’s a distillery that’s getting into bourbon around the corner. They are making gin now as well. So I buy that. I love Hendricks gin… But nows not the time.
Great Jones: distilled in Manhattan and grains sourced from NY.
What whiskey did you have from CA and WA?
Just what I could grab on the shelf conveniently so for.
- Redwood Empire - Pipe Dream
- Woodinville - Straight Bourbon
Canadian Club
I think this recommendation is a good segue into how important it is to think about where your money is going.
First of all, it seems obvious to buy Canadian whisky to support Canada. However we’re slapping big tariffs on them. That means that when you buy them that’s giving that tariff money to the US government, which I think we want to avoid.
Further, we’re in a very global economy. Damn-near every brand you’ve ever heard of is owned by the subsidiary of a subsidiary or some other company.
Canadian club is now owned by Suntory Global Spirits (Formerly Beam-Suntory, as in Jim Beam, they actually consider it to be a part of the Jim Beam brand portfolio) an American company, that is itself a subsidiary of Suntory, a Japanese company.
So an American company is getting a good slice of the profits from Canadian club.
And of course Suntory owns a lot of American brands (like Jim Beam since I already mentioned them) and they might well decide to take some of that Canadian Club money they take in and use it to prop up one of their Kentucky Bourbon brands which ends up funneling money towards whatever crazy right wing nut jobs there stand to profit from that.
So yes, Canadian Club is in fact made in Canada, presumably by Canadian employees, and contributing to the Canadian economy, paying Canadian taxes, etc. but a lot of it is also going to other places, and not necessarily places you want it to go, so it would be wise to weigh that into your decision-making here.
And I’m not trying to badmouth Suntory in particular, in the scheme of terrible megacorps I don’t think they’re the worst by a longshot (not that they’re necessarily at all good either) that’s just where I found a jumping off point. I enjoy a lot of their brands, and at least the handful of them that I make some effort to follow still seem to at least be paying lip service to some half decent ideas about things like DEI and sustainability, where some other companies have totally bent the knee to Krasnov.
And I’m not trying to badmouth Suntory in particular, in the scheme of terrible megacorps I don’t think they’re the worst by a longshot
Colkegan from Santa Fe Spirits in pretty interesting. NM is blue for now.
Texas has some great whiskey, but we’re petulant dumb-fucks, so you’ll have to wait until we fix our shit to try it.
I don’t drink at all anymore due to nightmarish acid reflux, but we’ll say it’s in protest.
