Preston MacDougallUmm, don’t blame #GenZ for #Kentucky bourbon distillers’ tears! https://nypost.com/2025/08/05/business/kentuckys-9b-whiskey-industry-in-crisis-as-gen-z-drinkers-shun-bourbon-tariffs-take-toll/
It’s hard to increase sales when the single largest purchaser of spirits in the world (the #Liquor Control Board of #Ontario or LCBO) has pulled ALL their products off the shelves in an #ElbowsUp retaliation to the baseless #TrumpTax (#tariffs.)
Edwin G. :mapleleafroundel:@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science Good on Gen Z (Zed) for drinking much less. Even Millenials, in my own personal observation, do drink less.
(And yup, United Statesian beverages are off the shelves)
Preston MacDougallAnd not all the #American whiskey producers facing #bankruptcy are in #Kentucky.
Here’s a sad story about one in #Tennessee that was started by a descendant of the former slave who taught #JackDaniel how to distill whiskey, ‘#UncleNearest Green’. https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/multimillion-dollar-lawsuit-filed-against-whiskey-distiller-uncle-nearest/