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re: Jim Beam Shutting Down……
Posted on 12/24/25 at 5:24 pm to SlidellCajun
Posted on 12/24/25 at 5:24 pm to SlidellCajun
This headline is so fake news.
Shuttering a plant for a year is not how this reads. This makes it sound like Beam Suntory is killing a namesake brand and putting it in the vault…which is false.
Shuttering a plant for a year is not how this reads. This makes it sound like Beam Suntory is killing a namesake brand and putting it in the vault…which is false.
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Posted on 12/24/25 at 6:07 pm to LChama
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They increased production and capacity over the last several years exponentially. Just like the rest of the big players.. they all made too much product. This is not tarriffs this is over projecting the demand for their product
Largely correct; but, not entirely true. Overproduction with waning demand is definitely an issue.
Tariffs have wrecked them whether you choose to admit it or not. Canada is the single largest consumer of bourbon outside of the US. They have drastically curtailed their purchases. Which is why you are seeing an abundance of new brands at places like Costco. All that Wild Turkey 101 8yo that hit shelves recently? That’s a Japanese market product never previously released in the US. They (Japan) too have stopped buying forcing Turkey to offload it here in the US.
So the evidence of the tariffs is literally sitting on the shelf right in front of us.
This post was edited on 12/24/25 at 6:11 pm
Posted on 12/24/25 at 6:29 pm to jmcwhrter
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Most people who drink whiskey for taste arent going near the base version Jim Beam or Jack Daniels
I'm late, but where did it say they were shutting down the Jim Beam? They could be shutting down Bookers or Little Book, Basil Hayden, Knob Creek, etc.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 6:41 pm to TigerFanatic99
Beam is shutting down its largest distillery in Clermont for at least a year. It accounts for about 40% of its total production and employs 600+ people. They primarily make the Beam line of products there; but, also produce Bakers, Bookers, Basil Hayden and Knob Creek.
There’s a bit of cat and mouse games playing out in Kentucky right now. There’s a positively enormous amount of bourbon in barrels. We are a few years from a gilded age for aged bourbon. Some of the newer players will become insolvent and forced to liquidate their assets. People like Beam, Old Forrester, Michters and others realize that they’ll be able to buy filled barrels with aged juice in them for pennies on the dollar. So shutting down production actually makes sense for some players. Cut your production and labor expenses to next to nothing; exhaust your current inventory then buy someone else’s misfortune at a deep discount and keep going.
There’s a bit of cat and mouse games playing out in Kentucky right now. There’s a positively enormous amount of bourbon in barrels. We are a few years from a gilded age for aged bourbon. Some of the newer players will become insolvent and forced to liquidate their assets. People like Beam, Old Forrester, Michters and others realize that they’ll be able to buy filled barrels with aged juice in them for pennies on the dollar. So shutting down production actually makes sense for some players. Cut your production and labor expenses to next to nothing; exhaust your current inventory then buy someone else’s misfortune at a deep discount and keep going.
This post was edited on 12/24/25 at 8:36 pm
Posted on 12/24/25 at 7:33 pm to jmcwhrter
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Most people who drink whiskey for taste arent going near the base version Jim Beam or Jack Daniels
I dunno I like top shelf bourbon but when I don’t want to pay for it Jim Beam is my go to. It’s fine on the rocks to me
Posted on 12/24/25 at 7:34 pm to JackDempsey
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Hank Williams Jr. made Jim Beam a LOT of money back in the day with songs like Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound that mentioned Jim Beam.
Dinosaur
“Light a little smoke in the truck out back, oh an a little Jim Beam and we”d get right”
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:04 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
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All I know is I enjoyed Makers Mark distillery the most out of the tours I took.
You should consider signing up as an Ambassador on their website. It’s a cool program and it’s free
Posted on 12/25/25 at 1:13 am to UltimaParadox
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think Is saw that only around 50% of Americans even drink now.
The wussification of America.
Posted on 12/25/25 at 12:34 pm to BamaCoaster
I enjoy a good drink but it's objectively terrible for you.
Posted on 12/25/25 at 12:56 pm to deltaland
I have loved some ladies
And I have loved Jim Beam
From Family Tradition
Play me the songs about a ramblin' man
Put old Jim Beam in my hand
From Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound
The man loved his Jim Beam Whiskey for sure.
And I have loved Jim Beam
From Family Tradition
Play me the songs about a ramblin' man
Put old Jim Beam in my hand
From Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound
The man loved his Jim Beam Whiskey for sure.
Posted on 12/25/25 at 1:29 pm to Motownsix
Just like any industry. When ‘supply is greater than demand’, you have to make some adjustments.
Jim Beam is not going away.
Jim Beam is not going away.
Posted on 12/25/25 at 5:34 pm to lynxcat
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enjoy a good drink but it's objectively terrible for you.
Everything fun and good is terrible for you
Posted on 12/26/25 at 8:17 am to GREENHEAD22
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Can we please get eagle rare and Blanton back on the shelves. Also back at MSRP pricing please.
Just bought two bottles of Eagle Rare in a Shreveport grocery store’s adjacent liquor store for like $53 each. First I’ve run across in a while.
Blantons cases were stacked just inside the door of Thrifty Liquor on Youree a couple weeks ago. I got a bottle. I think it was about $75 or so.
Posted on 12/26/25 at 12:24 pm to Twenty 49
ER10 down to $55 here in the Denver area. Blanton's back down as well.
I heard from a Buffalo Trace rep at a whiskey event a few weeks ago that BT is going to do a big test in Colorado in 2026. Removing several labels from allocation, as well as re-allocate some other labels from nearby states into Colorado.
I heard from a Buffalo Trace rep at a whiskey event a few weeks ago that BT is going to do a big test in Colorado in 2026. Removing several labels from allocation, as well as re-allocate some other labels from nearby states into Colorado.
Posted on 12/26/25 at 3:58 pm to Motownsix
Its a rotgut trash product.
Posted on 12/26/25 at 11:13 pm to LChama
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Serious question.. changing to what?
Not gathering/ being on screens.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 12:47 pm to Bard
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The drop in alcohol sales among the younger generations is not something I don't think anyone was expecting.
This made my brain hurt
Posted on 12/31/25 at 1:08 pm to LChama
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Serious question.. changing to what?
Changing to online
Posted on 1/2/26 at 2:28 pm to Twenty 49
Damn. ER is still $90 in some places in Houston. Rare to find a bottle at normal prices.
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