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So Cecil is from the BBC. Bourbon maker Jim Beam Haltz production at Maine Distillery for a year. Thank goodness. How bad is Jim Beam? I know Jim Beam's a parent company for a lot of other bourbons. Some of the other bourbons they make, I think, are okay. Yeah. But I think, like, it's so funny because the big bottle, like the ones that are the main bourbons, people taste those. and they think that's what bourbon tastes like. It sucks. So bad. That happens with American beer too. People from around the world will get, will be like American beer. American beer sucks. And they're thinking about Budweiser and Miller-Ly. Yeah, you're like, okay, well, yeah, sure, the big macro brew stuff isn't good. But the, you know, there's so many great breweries in the United States that produce amazing beer. And then the same thing goes with like distilleries. It's like with this, it's the biggest bottles are the worst tasting liquor or they taste like nothing. Yeah, right.

Yeah.

Well, if it tastes like nothing, that's Canadian whiskey.

I think maybe you're getting mixed up.

So this is a direct result of the tariffs too.

Like it's falling apart because the tariffs are just not getting exported.

But yeah, Jim Beam is, like Jim Beam on its own, genuinely terrible.

Jack Daniels tastes like a stomachache. Jack Daniels is Tennessee Missy. Tennessee Sour Mash. Tennessee, yeah. So it's not necessarily... It's not a bourbon, technically, yeah. But it's made in the exact same way just across a stream or something. It's not a bourbon. It's very similar. It's awful. It's terrible. So bad. It's sweet and gross and bad. I mean, it's a fine mixer for like a Coke or something.

Yeah, like a gel, like where the Coke is the primary flavor. That's fine. Sure. You don't want to spend money mixing something with a Coke. That's perfectly fine. But anything like if you're going to drink that like on the rocks, I would, I'd sooner like fucking drink literally anything else.

Like you pick something.

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