You take moonshine and add time plus government regulations and you get bourbon.
The main problem here, as I see it, is that bourbon is the trendy thing now, like fancy tequilas were a while ago.
It is hard to suddenly make more 5 year old or 12 year old stuff appear. If you didn’t put it away then, you don’t have it now.
This is, amazingly, where prices actually work. If demand is so high that prices skyrocket, then people will move on to the next trendy thing.
I have zero idea of liquor trends. I thought flavored vodkas were big at one point, is that past too? open bar for hours at the cocktail hour and reception and I had a single glass of merlot and a champagne toast and that was it.
Lets all take a minute and offer up a prayer for Tioga who is probably out of surgery for her knee replacement by now.
We were discussing scotch the other day - does it only “age” while in the barrel or would a bottled 12 year old scotch, that you’ve owned for 3 years become 15 year old?