Blantons shortage?

[TheBeerdedGuy]

I did find a bottle on the southeast side of Indy. I have yet to open it though. I was curious if somebody knew why nobody could get it. All of the store owners I talked to have been ordering it, but never get it and weren't sure what was going on.

[smokinjoe]

This is surprising news. Hadn't heard anything about any bourbon being tough to find. Heck, hardly anybody drinks the stuff. Is it possible that we may be moving into a period of tight supplies of bourbon?!?! If this could somehow be accurate, I'll bet we could even see prices rising soon! :bigeyes:

[LIQUIDWHEAT]

N.E. Ohio is well stocked.

[mbroo5880i]

This is surprising news. Hadn't heard anything about any bourbon being tough to find. Heck, hardly anybody drinks the stuff. Is it possible that we may be moving into a period of tight supplies of bourbon?!?! If this could somehow be accurate, I'll bet we could even see prices rising soon! :bigeyes:

[fozzy71]

It is/was always easy to find here in MI but at $60 I have never tried it. I didn't see any on the shelves in my recent trip to Hammond, IN.

Scrolling thru my pics from the Indi trip I realized this was incorrect. I did see at least one bottle on the shelves.

[drunkenjayhawk]

$50-55 here, at a few stores still. One even kept them in the boxes - why they remove them at others I don't know. They don't remove the single malt from their tubes...

[The Black Tot]

Blanton's seems to be always available if you know where to look. There are always a few smaller out of the way stores that seem to have a few.

[SBOmarc]

Six bottles were put on the shelf at a well known retail establishment here in Las Vegas at 8 AM yesterday. No shortage....

Said bottles were gone by 10:45 AM. The shortage is real.

[smokinjoe]

Six bottles were put on the shelf at a well known retail establishment here in Las Vegas at 8 AM yesterday. No shortage....

Said bottles were gone by 10:45 AM. The shortage is real.

[Harry in WashDC]

I agree with Joe. And this time I wasn't drinking anything so I didn't snort and burn my nose.

[danz]

I thought Blanton's was a low-volume seller for Sazerac/BT, so they don't ship it as regularly as some other labels. To me, this explains why it sometimes disappears from shelves for a while before being restocked. In addition, this is in the Age International part of the business, so I understand distribution decisions are not entirely within Sazerac's control, which is why the Straight From the Barrel label is not available in the US. I also think it's overpriced, so I don't pay much attention to it.

[K4MJK]

It is one of my favorites at the moment. Most stores I have gone to are out and have been ordering it since April with none shipped. I don't think I have seen a bottle with a date from 2015. It was one I saw everywhere so I took it for granted that it would always be around. guess the playboy review made it popular

[greatgoo]

Up here in Cleveland it is everywhere. Go figure. Ohio usually has a pretty poor Bourbon selection too.

[GrPeMi]

It is one of my favorites at the moment. Most stores I have gone to are out and have been ordering it since April with none shipped. I don't think I have seen a bottle with a date from 2015. It was one I saw everywhere so I took it for granted that it would always be around. guess the playboy review made it popular

Must be a regional thing...a quick look shows there's about 600 bottles of it in OR, and not all just in Portland. I have yet to get myself a bottle. I keep hoping a friend can score a SFTB when he goes to Japan for work, but it seems to be pretty scarce there right now.