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Jack Daniel's maker says Canada pulling US alcohol off shelves 'worse than tariff'
(www.reuters.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
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Literally could not care less what Jack thinks about us doing what we must.
Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers.
That's just fucking glorious. Have some Lemmy Gold.
Im pretty sure insulting our PM and threatening to annex us is worse but what do I know…
That wasn't Jack Daniel's! That was just their owners, their customers, Tennessee's politicians, their voters, other red states...
Right? Gotta love these fuckers who only see the money side of this. The potato dick wants to occupy our communities and pillage our natural resources, and this shit stain thinks not being allowed to sell his rotten corn juice in out territory is a step to far?
We know he voted for this menace. All of these wastes of carbon did. This is what he voted for.
suck my dick jackie boy
It says right in the article, "Canada accounts for 1% of the sales..." So I'm not one to shit on good news but I don't think days a problem for them. But that's just Jack Daniel's. Across the whole spirits, liquors, and wines industry definitely will add up.
we deserve it tho. if you're gonna be dumb, you got to be tough
That's how I build my DnD fighters.
If you're pissed, put your influence against Trump and his horseshit tariffs. What was a disproportionate response was Canada doing nothing wrong, and America putting tariffs on their goods.
They only have Trump to blame
They also have the Project 2025 authors and the rest of the Republican Party to blame as well.
Republican voters*
I don't care if they were duped, hoodwinked, brainwashed, lied to, conned, scammed, whatever. They need to take some fucking responsibility.
Not our problem your president broke the agreement.
I don't know the guy's politics, and I don't care to know them, but if you have a super generic, easily replaceable export, you should avoid presidents who fuck around, because you'll be the one who finds out.
It's a terrible whiskey anyway. Go for a good Scottish or Irish single malt.
Bourbons have their place, you can't really make an old fashioned with a scotch .. I mean you can .. but you shouldn't. That said you shouldnt use Jack Daniels for one either.
Eh, Jack isn't really a bourbon. It's made with a starter but that's still not really a bourbon. That would be Jim. I don't particularly care for either, but when I was drinking, I preferred a good Irish or Scottish neat.
Occasionally I liked a cocktail with Cointreau, Tequila and lime on the rocks. I forget what it was called.
Jack isn't really a bourbon
It checks all of the legal boxes to be a bourbon, at least 51% corn, aged in new charred oak barrels, the aging and proof requirements, made in the US, etc.
Being "made with a starter" isn't a requirement for bourbon, and I'm honestly not even too sure what you mean by that. I assume it's probably some reference to it being a sour mash whiskey, but that's not something that factors into the legal definition of bourbon.
The only thing that arguably makes it not a bourbon is the "Lincoln County Process" of charcoal filtering it before aging in the casks, which is a requirement to be called a "Tennessee Whiskey," all the other requirements are pretty much the same as bourbon (and it's worth noting that the 2nd biggest Tennessee Whiskey brand is Prichards, which is actually located in Lincoln County, and doesn't use that process and has a grandfathered exception to that requirement)
The main nitpick is whether that Lincoln county process can be considered to add color or flavoring, because if it does that would disqualify it from being a bourbon. I'm personally of the opinion that if it's a filtering process, it's probably removing flavor and color if anything so not a disqualifier, and even if it did, in the relatively short time it's in contact with the whiskey it's probably pretty insignificant and not gonna be all that distinguishable from what the charred oak barrels are going to impact to it over the next 2+ years.
And Tennessee is really the only place that makes the Lincoln County Process a requirement for "Tennessee Whiskey" Pretty much any other government or trade organization (like NAFTA) that has a definition for it basically just leaves it at something like "a straight bourbon whiskey made in Tennessee"
Removing American products had very little to do with tariffs. It started after Trump threatened to invade Canada.
Dang. Should have donated harder, bucko.