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Topics => Economy => Topic started by: Libertas on January 30, 2015, 07:24:45 AM

Title: Who Makes Our Whiskey?
Post by: Libertas on January 30, 2015, 07:24:45 AM

"Where's the Whiskey" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDPqLLN7nbc#)

 ;D

(http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2015/01-overflow/20150129_whiskey_0.jpg)


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-29/drink-world-4-companies-control-global-whiskey-production (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-29/drink-world-4-companies-control-global-whiskey-production)

Mmm...Glenlivet Scotch and Knob Creek Bourbon!   ::thumbsup::   ::thumbsup::

And a JD & Coke ain't bad. 

Title: Re: Who Makes Our Whiskey?
Post by: IronDioPriest on January 30, 2015, 07:42:44 AM

I had no idea.

Title: Re: Who Makes Our Whiskey?
Post by: Libertas on January 30, 2015, 08:09:34 AM

I thought Brown-Forman owned Knob Creek but this shows Suntory does, because Knob Creek was made I thought in a JD distillery, they had to have been sold recently.  The other companies I couldn't have recognized if you asked me.

Title: Re: Who Makes Our Whiskey?
Post by: IronDioPriest on January 30, 2015, 09:00:24 AM

Upon closer examination, just off the top of my head, there are a couple popular brands I don't see on the list. Crown Royal and Seagram's 7 don't appear.

Title: Re: Who Makes Our Whiskey?
Post by: IronDioPriest on January 30, 2015, 09:02:57 AM

I guess this explains Seagram's (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagram). I wonder if the 5 unopened bottles in my liquor cabinet for the last decade will be worth anything down the road?

Title: Re: Who Makes Our Whiskey?
Post by: Libertas on January 30, 2015, 09:46:15 AM

Quote from: IronDioPriest on January 30, 2015, 09:02:57 AM

I guess this explains Seagram's (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagram). I wonder if the 5 unopened bottles in my liquor cabinet for the last decade will be worth anything down the road?

If ya don't drink 'em, ya might be able to trade 'em or light 'em and chuck 'em at an enemy!   ;)

Title: Re: Who Makes Our Whiskey?
Post by: richb on February 02, 2015, 01:31:56 PM

At least there are four companies (yet).   

It could be like the diamond business with DeBeers as the international cartel and nobody else.

Title: Re: Who Makes Our Whiskey?
Post by: Glock32 on February 02, 2015, 05:00:00 PM

Yeah I don't see George Dickel on the list either.

Title: Re: Who Makes Our Whiskey?
Post by: Libertas on February 03, 2015, 06:33:44 AM

I know that name, Irish Whiskey?  Never dabbled in much of that, mostly rye-based isn't it?

Title: Re: Who Makes Our Whiskey?
Post by: Glock32 on February 04, 2015, 02:24:04 PM

Dickel?  It's a Tennessee whiskey.  I don't really drink the stuff, I'm a beer man.  When I occasionally have a mixed drink I usually get a George Dickel and Coke, or a gin and tonic.  I am simple that way.