XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc   
   From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   Ignaratio Elenchi wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > Bradley K. Sherman  wrote:   
   >>  |   
   >>  | Major Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam shuttering distillery   
   >>  | for 2026   
   >>  | ...   
   >>  | The move comes as Kentucky's $9 billion bourbon industry   
   >>  | grapples with a glut of whiskey and a slump in demand at   
   >>  | home. In response, the industry has pulled back production   
   >>  | by more than 55 million proof-gallons (an industry unit of   
   >>  | measurement) or more than 28% through August, the lowest   
   >>  | level since 2018. At the same time, exports have been   
   >>  | curtailed to major trading partners; Canada has been   
   >>  | boycotting American spirits since March in retaliation for   
   >>  | President Trump's ongoing trade war and U.S. whiskey sales   
   >>  | to that country are down by more than 60% through October.   
   >>  | Other Kentucky companies including Jack Daniel's Tennessee   
   >>  | Whiskey maker Brown-Forman also have announced layoffs or   
   >>  | shorter pauses in production earlier in the year.   
   >>  | ...   
   >>    
   >   
   > Sales have been sinking since even before tariffs.   
      
   Well now they're sinking faster.   
      
   > The bourbon/whiskey boom   
   > is over, similar to the craft beer industry.   
      
   Huh? Craft beers have sunk only about 4%.   
      
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