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He was warned:

 

Liquor sales soared during the pandemic as Americans flush with cash splashed out on booze, making cocktails at home and drinking more frequently. Now drinkers are cutting back, plowing through bottles they accrued in recent years and trading down to cheaper brands. 

Sales volumes of U.S. whiskey—including bourbon, Tennessee and rye—dropped 1.2% in 2023, marking the first fall since 2002, according to industry tracker IWSR. That drop steepened last year, with volumes down 4% in the first nine months of 2024.

 

Tariffs threaten to pose additional challenges. A deal between the U.S. and the European Union that paused proposed 50% tariffs on imports of American whiskey into Europe—a response to steel tariffs levied by the first Trump administration—is set to expire at the end of March. President-elect Donald Trump has also said he plans to slap new tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China, which could raise packaging costs and spur retaliatory tariffs.

Distillers fear that tariffs will hurt exports and that American whiskey that can’t be sold abroad will find its way back home, adding to an existing glut. 

“The one thing that has everyone here scared to death is tariffs,” said Eric Gregory, president of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association. 

https://www.wsj.com/business/americas-bourbon-boom-is-over-now-the-hangover-is-here-3e9961d7

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17 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Whiskey Man payin tariffs don't hardly sound like no true Whiskey Man. [/spits]

Man....I always thought I'd have been a cool bootlegger.  Gotta get me one of them fancy Chris Craft boats because dude....style is everything.  I'll run whiskey to Mexico, wind in my hair, babes "helping me load and unload my cargo."  Yeah, man....good times.

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11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Man....I always thought I'd have been a cool bootlegger.  Gotta get me one of them fancy Chris Craft boats because dude....style is everything.  I'll run whiskey to Mexico, wind in my hair, babes "helping me load and unload my cargo."  Yeah, man....good times.

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Gonna be tough to get that boat from Lake Tahoe to Mexico.

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And we've heard of Brisket's ability to create natural jet-fuel level gas on demand simply by eating...well, damn near ANYTHING and chasing it with some beers so give him a six pack, some Allsup's and a water ski ramp to launch from and watch that man fly that boat back to Texas like an eagle soars.

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14 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

And we've heard of Brisket's ability to create natural jet-fuel level gas on demand simply by eating...well, damn near ANYTHING and chasing it with some beers so give him a six pack, some Allsup's and a water ski ramp to launch from and watch that man fly that boat back to Texas like an eagle soars.

Fuck yeah, brother.

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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Man....I always thought I'd have been a cool bootlegger.  Gotta get me one of them fancy Chris Craft boats because dude....style is everything.  I'll run whiskey to Mexico, wind in my hair, babes "helping me load and unload my cargo."  Yeah, man....good times.

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My grandad (when he was a teen) did some bootlegging with his bartender older brother. There were interludes of routine work interspersed with moments of rapid movement and terror.

Me I stuck to tame stuff. Puebla blouses and similar. The customs guys didn't even want to look at them, as they tapped on all the admittedly interesting-sounding parts of the car, (and there are many after I rammed that truck in Colima that night, then spent weeks haggling with the body shop guys and showing them pictures of my nieces lying that they were my daughters and that their lives depended on solid hammer-work.)

My son called me the Han Solo of Puebla Blouses.

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