The tariff war hits home as Kentucky’s Bourbon Country grinds to a halt.

Jim Beam is halting whiskey production at its historic Clermont, Kentucky, facility for most of 2026 in a major pullback that shows just how badly the bourbon business has soured. The distillery, which opened in 1935, will keep bottling what it has already made and let existing barrels age, but it won’t be producing any new bourbon, marking a complete reversal for an industry that bet big on continued growth. Export sales have tanked as a result of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, with Canadian purchases falling by as much as 85 percent during recent trade fights.

  • ZDL@lazysoci.alEnglish
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    1 month ago

    It’s almost as if Americans had been so thoroughly propagandized over the decades that they think:

    • they’re the good guys that everybody wants to be like;
    • capitalism is a—no the—natural way things work; and,
    • the only reason anybody would ever do a boycott of any kind, anywhere, is based on money.

    They don’t understand that there’s other (better) ways to do things than sucking off billionaires, and they don’t understand that people do things for moral reasons in place of money-grubbing ones outside of the USA.