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[FONT=&]Fear of a Bourbon Shortage Puts Enthusiasts Over a Barrel[/FONT]
Simpsonville, S.C. - 9 Dec 14
"On a recent Saturday, Edward Johnson hurried into Harvard’s Liquor & Wine and made a beeline toward a 4-foot-wide section of bourbon. There he bypassed the Old Crow and Jim Beam and reached up to grab one of four stubby bottles of Blanton’s, a wheat bourbon. At the register, the cashier had a 10-year-old bottle of Henry McKenna Single Barrel waiting for him. It was set aside that morning.
Mr. Johnson shelled out $107 for the bourbon and then headed to a nearby Sam’s Club, where he spent about $100 on diapers for his 19-month-old daughter. People observing this routine might wonder if he has a drinking problem. He doesn’t. What he has is a serious case of anxiety.
It began two years ago, when Mr. Johnson and his brother-in-law heard of an alleged bourbon shortage. He has been making monthly liquor and diaper runs ever since.
“It scared us and fear is a motivating factor,” said Mr. Johnson, a 36-year-old managing partner of Old Colony Furniture, who now has a stash of about 50 bottles of bourbon. The collection, he says, grew out of an urge to make sure there would never be a time when “I wanted bourbon and couldn’t get it.” After a while, he says, the habit “took on a life of its own.”
He isn’t alone. Panic has gripped bourbon enthusiasts across the country, and they are amassing stockpiles of it, hoping to guard
against shortages and price hikes.
Greg Gilbert of Lovettsville, Va., built a basement bunker for his 700 bottles of bourbon. He also joined a private club so he could bypass retailers and buy barrels straight from distillers. Joe Conner, a warehouse worker from Rockford, Ill., created a spreadsheet for his 120 bottles of bourbon so he could keep track of what he had bought, what he had opened and what he needed to purchase.
Steffen Braüner, a surveyor from Denmark, travels to Las Vegas for a whiskey-tasting event so he can embark on an annual bourbon hunt.
Last year, he drove from Las Vegas to Utah, hoping that in a state filled with teetotalers he would be able to find a bottle of the extremely limited George T. Stagg. “There’s much less of what’s good to buy,” says Mr. Braüner, who returned to Denmark empty-handed.
Bourbon’s popularity has surged ever since the amber liquor became a star of Mad Men. Magazines such as GQ and Bon Appétit have devoted pages to articles on bourbon cocktails. The Manhattan and Old Fashioned have become fashionable again. President Barack Obama recently proposed a “Bourbon Summit” with Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell.
“[Bourbon] has gone away from being seen as an old man drink,” says Mahesh Patel, a structural engineer who owns 4,000 bottles of [the stuff] and sponsors an annual tasting conference in Las Vegas.
Sales of bourbon are growing at a dizzying rate. Domestic sales of Kentucky-made bourbon have increased 36% in the last five years to $1.5 billion. Exports rose 56% to $300 million from 2010, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S.".
Read More: http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/inside-the-ticker/fear-of-a-bourbon-shortage-puts-enthusiasts-over-a-barrel/ar-BBgtPMn
"Keep your friends close and your bourbon closer" Old Bourbon Proverb
...a bourbon storage
[FONT=&]Fear of a Bourbon Shortage Puts Enthusiasts Over a Barrel[/FONT]
Simpsonville, S.C. - 9 Dec 14
"On a recent Saturday, Edward Johnson hurried into Harvard’s Liquor & Wine and made a beeline toward a 4-foot-wide section of bourbon. There he bypassed the Old Crow and Jim Beam and reached up to grab one of four stubby bottles of Blanton’s, a wheat bourbon. At the register, the cashier had a 10-year-old bottle of Henry McKenna Single Barrel waiting for him. It was set aside that morning.
Mr. Johnson shelled out $107 for the bourbon and then headed to a nearby Sam’s Club, where he spent about $100 on diapers for his 19-month-old daughter. People observing this routine might wonder if he has a drinking problem. He doesn’t. What he has is a serious case of anxiety.
It began two years ago, when Mr. Johnson and his brother-in-law heard of an alleged bourbon shortage. He has been making monthly liquor and diaper runs ever since.
“It scared us and fear is a motivating factor,” said Mr. Johnson, a 36-year-old managing partner of Old Colony Furniture, who now has a stash of about 50 bottles of bourbon. The collection, he says, grew out of an urge to make sure there would never be a time when “I wanted bourbon and couldn’t get it.” After a while, he says, the habit “took on a life of its own.”
He isn’t alone. Panic has gripped bourbon enthusiasts across the country, and they are amassing stockpiles of it, hoping to guard
against shortages and price hikes.
Greg Gilbert of Lovettsville, Va., built a basement bunker for his 700 bottles of bourbon. He also joined a private club so he could bypass retailers and buy barrels straight from distillers. Joe Conner, a warehouse worker from Rockford, Ill., created a spreadsheet for his 120 bottles of bourbon so he could keep track of what he had bought, what he had opened and what he needed to purchase.
Steffen Braüner, a surveyor from Denmark, travels to Las Vegas for a whiskey-tasting event so he can embark on an annual bourbon hunt.
Last year, he drove from Las Vegas to Utah, hoping that in a state filled with teetotalers he would be able to find a bottle of the extremely limited George T. Stagg. “There’s much less of what’s good to buy,” says Mr. Braüner, who returned to Denmark empty-handed.
Bourbon’s popularity has surged ever since the amber liquor became a star of Mad Men. Magazines such as GQ and Bon Appétit have devoted pages to articles on bourbon cocktails. The Manhattan and Old Fashioned have become fashionable again. President Barack Obama recently proposed a “Bourbon Summit” with Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell.
“[Bourbon] has gone away from being seen as an old man drink,” says Mahesh Patel, a structural engineer who owns 4,000 bottles of [the stuff] and sponsors an annual tasting conference in Las Vegas.
Sales of bourbon are growing at a dizzying rate. Domestic sales of Kentucky-made bourbon have increased 36% in the last five years to $1.5 billion. Exports rose 56% to $300 million from 2010, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S.".
Read More: http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/inside-the-ticker/fear-of-a-bourbon-shortage-puts-enthusiasts-over-a-barrel/ar-BBgtPMn
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