Oh,Oh....better stock up...

[dSculptor]

Just read this,

https://www.yahoo.com/food/is-the-u-s-poised-to-run-out-of-bourbon-115951633747.html

Probably could have put it in a current thread, if you mods think it should go somewhere else, please put it there.

[johnnyflake45]

Just read this,

https://www.yahoo.com/food/is-the-u-s-poised-to-run-out-of-bourbon-115951633747.html

Probably could have put it in a current thread, if you mods think it should go somewhere else, please put it there.

Articles like that, just add to the madness!

[jakerthesnaker79]

This almost makes me want to go buy a case of my stand by EC12...I just don't want to imagine life without my daily drinker...

[mark fleetwood]

I'm going to get WAY ahead of this and start bunkering Benchmark and Old Crow tonight!

[ebo]

Whatever. There will always be something to drink at a reasonable price. If there really is a Bourbon shortage, I'll just drink Tequila...lol.

[johnnyflake45]

Well, I already have a few bottles bunkered, 4 WLW 12yo, 4 WLW Antique 107, 2 Makers 46 and 1 Knob Creek. I probably should get another half dozen or so. At the rate I drink now days, that would last me 2 or 3 years.

[Richnimrod]

I'll buy an extra case of Pappy 23 next time in the liquor store.... just to be safe, ya' know.

[Hop]

I'm just going to do my own barrel selections of my favorite 4-5 bourbons and call it a day

[Mr. Bourbon]

Well, I remember watching a tour at Buffalo Trace and they said that if they stopped producing Bourbon that very day. Buffalo Trace would still be able to provide with the world with Bourbon for the next 40 years.

[Tucker]

Well, I remember watching a tour at Buffalo Trace and they said that if they stopped producing Bourbon that very day. Buffalo Trace would still be able to provide with the world with Bourbon for the next 40 years.

...as long as you don't want any Elmer T. Lee, apparently. I've pretty much given up on obtaining the Buffalo Trace bourbons I like.

[393foureyedfox]

i've cut back a bit recently, and am still committed to only buying barrel proof stuff I know I like to add to the bunker. That said, Ive still got YEARS' worth of HH6/90, HH6BIB, KCSB, Dickel 9 year, and various SAOS bourbons and ryes. This year so far, Ive basically only added to the SAOS collection. Booker's I dont stock up on because its always there........so far.

[johnnybogey]

In that case, need to stock up on EC12 and SAOS7.

[fozzy71]

...as long as you don't want any Elmer T. Lee, apparently. I've pretty much given up on obtaining the Buffalo Trace bourbons I like.

I picked one up last week for $35, be glad to sell it to you for $200....

[mosugoji64]

I'll buy an extra case of Pappy 23 next time in the liquor store.... just to be safe, ya' know.

I heard the 25 is better [emoji1]

[Richnimrod]

I heard the 25 is better [emoji1]

I really want to find a couple cases of Pappy 27, again; just to be safe, ya' know. I heard it's getting hard to find.

[B.B. Babington]

as long as there's copper tubing there will never be a whiskey shortage

[johnnyflake45]

I'll buy an extra case of Pappy 23 next time in the liquor store.... just to be safe, ya' know.

[ken_mays]

I really want to find a couple cases of Pappy 27, again; just to be safe, ya' know. I heard it's getting hard to find.

[Richnimrod]

I asked my manservant to lay in appropriate stocks of Pappy 55. I simply don't know how you poor fellows get by with that 27 rotgut. I suppose you get used to it at your alley dice games and post-arraignment jubilees.

[BourbonGuy]

I have in my possession a list of thirty-nine cocktails of which only three or four of them contain whisk(e)y as an essential ingredient. The rest of the drinks have their main spirit shared roughly equally among the major liquors that include brandy/cognac, gin, rum, tequila, and vodka.

If decent whisk(e)y, including bourbon, becomes a scarce commodity or an exorbitant indulgence, all I need do is switch liquors. It's as easy as that. So let the bourbon distillers/producers be forewarned: you keep compromising your products (like the current conversion-to-NAS trend), raising prices, and exploiting the already lowered availability, eventually people will look elsewhere.

We, as enthusiasts, may never again see the value in bourbon that existed ten or fifteen years ago. Just like lobster (see the excerpt below), good bourbon may well become an unjustified extravagance. Some bourbons are already unreasonably expensive. Some are virtually unobtainable.

But let's get real here: Whiskey is good stuff, but there are suitable replacements -- replacements that rival its quality and occasionally surpass its value. So while lobster never returned to its previously low estimation, I'm not sure bourbon has the luxury of becoming similarly overvalued.

In my opinion, all of the current mystique and hype surrounding bourbon should either be put into perspective, or the bourbon industry will eventually suffer as a consequence. I don't want to see that happen just so I, as a consumer, can profit from it (a future glut).

"Long ago, lobsters were so plentiful that Native Americans used them to fertilize their fields and to bait their hooks for fishing. In colonial times, lobsters were considered 'poverty food'. They were harvested from tidal pools and served to children, to prisoners, and to indentured servants, who exchanged their passage to America for seven years of service to their sponsors. In Massachusetts, some of the servants finally rebelled. They had it put into their contracts that they would not be forced to eat lobster more than three times a week."

P.S. -- I don't eat lobster anymore. I've found other things I enjoy just as much.:grin:

[emr454]

While I am glad that our favorite brands and producers are doing well right now, I'm also looking forward to demand dropping so the prices come back out of the stratosphere.

Someone needs to go start an internet-fueled blended scotch craze so people will leave our bourbon alone!

[dboland]

With the increased capacity, may come increased supply and more attractive prices. Am I too optimistic?

[Richnimrod]

When can anyone remember prices DROPPING? .....On Anything? (Other than short term fluctuations on commodities.)

Don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen is what I'd recommend.

[Harry in WashDC]

When can anyone remember prices DROPPING? .....On Anything? (Other than short term fluctuations on commodities.)

Don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen is what I'd recommend.

PCs, then tablets, then phones. Of course, if bourbons and their components were made in China on assembly lines . . .

[stickly]

PCs, then tablets, then phones. Of course, if bourbons and their components were made in China on assembly lines . . .

Might add another interesting flavor descriptor to the typical repertoire: leather, caramel, vanilla, and lead....