XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc   
   From: lgEl@philo.org   
      
   On 12/26/25 12:18 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Yes, primarily due to record inventory glut, domestic softening   
   (changing drinking habits) and tariffs.   
      
   >> The bourbon/whiskey boom   
   >> is over, similar to the craft beer industry.   
   >   
   > Huh? Craft beers have sunk only about 4%.   
      
   Since 2023 craft sales are down about 9%, and dropping, predicted to go   
   down 3% year over year through the next five years.   
      
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