348 - Pritzker Acquires Bardstown Bourbon, Can Cooperages Keep Up Pace?, and When Will Bourbon Prices Increase? on Bourbon Community Roundtable #66

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🗓️ 10 March 2022

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It's Bourbon Community Roundtable #66 and here's what we have on the topic list for today! Pritzker Private Capital Acquires Bardstown Bourbon Company. What does that mean for the pioneer of hospitality in Bardstown? As bourbon capital spending increases and barrel shortage is on the horizon, can cooperages keep up? Raw materials, shipping, and cost to market is increasing. Beam has already announced price hikes to its premium bourbon brands like Booker's and Knob Creek. How long should bourbon companies keep absorbing these costs and should we expect prices to go up across the board? Show Notes: Above the Char with Fred Minnick (@fredminnick) talks about blind tastings. Pritzker Private Capital Acquires Bardstown Bourbon Company. What does that mean for the pioneer of hospitality in Bardstown? As bourbon capital spending increases and barrel shortage is on the horizon, can cooperages keep up? Raw materials, shipping, and cost to market is increasing. How long should bourbon companies keep absorbing these costs and should we expect prices to go up? @bourbonr @breakingbourbon @sippn_corn Support this podcast on Patreon

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0:43.3	Bourbon Community Roundtable number 66. And here's what we have on the topic list for today.
0:49.4	Britsker Private Capital has acquired Bardstown Bourbon Company. So what does that mean for the pioneer of
0:54.5	hospitality in Bardstown, as well as one of the pioneers of hospitality and bourbon in general?
0:59.3	And as we all know that bourbon capital spending is on the rise, we have distilleries that are
1:03.7	adding more fermenters, more stills, and just increasing capacity. But we've also heard that there's
1:08.5	going to be a barrel shortage on the horizon. So with all these producers making more barrels of bourbon, how can Cooper just keep up?
1:16.0	And we all know with the supply chain that raw materials, shipping, and the cost to market is increasing.
1:21.9	And Jim Beam has already announced that they're going to have the second price hike this year to its premium bourbon brands like
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