Shaun,
I will be the first to admit that I am far from being a Kentucky bourbon expert but I will share what I was told recently. My two son’s and I did part of the Bourbon Trail during the end of Mar. We did 5 tours and visited 3 other distilleries. All indicated including Buffalo Trace that the bourbon industry has grown approximately 40 percent in the past 8 years. Most of that increase can be blamed on the increase in foreign demand. So realistically, 15 plus years ago they did not have a clue on what the present day demand would be and now they all are playing catch up. I’m not saying that they would not take advantage of a situation to increase their profit but it does seem that in some cases demand has exceeded product availability. I think it was at the Jim Beam distillery we were told that presently in Kentucky there are more total barrels of bourbon being warehoused than there are people and horses combined in the entire state. That my friend is a butt load of bourbon.
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