245 - COVID-19 Effect on Bourbon and Blanton’s Hysteria on Bourbon Community Roundtable #42

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🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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On this episode, we discuss two topics that are top of mind. First, is the Coronavirus and how it's impacting the bourbon industry. Then we take a look at the hype and hysteria that surrounds Blanton's. We dive into the recent news of Blanton's Gold making its way to the US and if we think $120 SRP is a deal you should jump on. You will hear a new voice for a few minutes and that is Aaron Goldfarb. You may have seen his work on various publications around the web. He wasn’t able to stay on due to some technical difficulties, but we hope to have him on again soon. Show Notes: Barrel Shortage: https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-there-a-bourbon-barrel-shortage-on-the-horizon This week’s Above the Char with Fred Minnick talks about taxes. What are distilleries doing for coronavirus? History of Blanton's. How did Blanton's become so popular? Will limiting the purchases of allocated items work? Why don't distilleries use technology to manage this problem? Blanton's Gold coming to the US. Is it because of tariffs? Are they taking away from the European allocation? How can you make more product with only one warehouse? Will quality suffer with increased production? What other companies have a similar strategy to Blanton's? What do you think of the price point? Will Straight from the Barrel ever come to the U.S.? Thanks to Blake from bourbonr.com, Jordan from BreakingBourbon.com , Brian from sippncorn.com, and Aaron Goldfarb for joining.

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0:00.0	So if you think back in the 1980s, it was a bleak period for bourbon.
0:04.8	Oh, thank you.
0:05.4	Thank Brian.
0:06.3	All right.
0:07.0	Everybody's just popping bottles.
0:10.2	They don't even live a shit what's going on around here.
0:12.4	I'm listening, really.
0:14.0	I thought it was a good timing.
0:27.3	This is episode 245 of Bourbon Pursuit. I'm one of your host, Kenny.
0:28.6	We've got a lot of news to cover, so let's hit it.
0:31.7	COVID-19 or the coronavirus is hitting everyone extremely hard.
0:36.3	Now, I'm not sure why people are stocking up on toilet paper like they don't plan on
0:40.3	leaving the bathroom anytime soon, but I'm sure most of us have enough bourbon to get us through this time.
0:44.3	At this point, every major distillery has shut down tours, so if you had plans to visit the
0:50.3	Bourbon Trail, please make sure you do your research before coming to see what is and what
0:54.8	is not open.
0:56.6	Likely, it's going to be nothing because even at this time, all bars and restaurants in the
1:01.6	city of Louisville are amid of a shutdown of in-person patrons.
1:06.3	And in more coronavirus news, we've talked about this before about one of the benefits of having
1:10.5	a state-run
1:11.3	liquor is that the product is always sold at SRP. Well, who could have predicted this, but
1:16.8	Pennsylvania, one of those states where all spirits are government sanctioned and controlled,
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