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.

  • CircaV@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Stopping saying it doesn’t mean it’s still not part of his plans.

    • ZDL@lazysoci.alEnglish
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      1 month ago

      This right here. And on top of that Trump <refrain>is not the problem, he’s a SYMPTOM of the problem</refrain>.

      Trump is the American id made manifest. If there wasn’t a huge proportion of the American electorate on-board with his shitfuckery he’d be just another senile old man shouting at the clouds.

    • rbos@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Nor does it take back the fact that a huge percentage of the USA was enthusiastically on board with a violent takeover of a neighbouring nation. That was the scariest part. So many Americans would apparently happily march into Canada, or stand aside and watch it happening, and kill as many of us as it took to pacify us. Destroy our cities, take our land, turn us into another Puerto Rico or Cuba.

      No. We’ll fight to stop that happening.

      No matter what happens now, the USA is no longer a friend and ally, no longer a partner.

      • CircaV@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Every time Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson call Canada “communist” or ridiculously challenge Justin Trudeau’s parentage - is manufacturing consent to annex us.