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Deerfield-based Beam sold for $16 billion [Jim Beam, Maker's Mark]
AP via Chicago Sun-Times ^ | Jan. 13, 2014

Posted on 01/13/2014 9:30:20 AM PST by 1rudeboy

DEERFIELD — Beam, the maker of Jim Beam and Marker’s Mark alcohol brands, has agreed to be acquired by Japan’s Suntory Holdings Ltd. for approximately $13.62 billion.

Shares of the spirits maker jumped in Monday premarket trading.

Suntory has a portfolio of spirits, with whiskies including Yamazaki and Hakushu as well as Midori liqueur and other beverages. It already distributes Beam’s products in Japan. Beam distributes Suntory’s products in Singapore and other Asian markets.

Suntory President and Chairman Nobutada Saji said in a statement that the acquisition will help Suntory further its global growth.

The combined company is expected to have annual sales of spirits products of more than $4.3 billion.

(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...


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To: 1rudeboy

21 posted on 01/13/2014 9:52:42 AM PST by TomServo
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To: cuban leaf

Speaking of, can any Jack Daniels drinkers tell me when, and why, it switched to 80 proof?


22 posted on 01/13/2014 9:52:49 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Twotone

All Brown-Forman brands are still American-owned. This includes Jack Daniels, Woodford Reserve, Old Forester and Early Times.


23 posted on 01/13/2014 9:54:30 AM PST by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: 1rudeboy; Paratrooper

He must be hung like a ......................


24 posted on 01/13/2014 9:55:58 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: TomServo
Krupnikas

Ingredients:

All spices should be cracked lightly if possible to maximize flavor.

8 whole cloves
3 cinnamon sticks
10 cardamom pods, cracked
1/2 nutmeg seed, cracked
5 allspice berries
1 1/2 tsp black peppercorns
1 tsp fennel seed
3 inch piece of ginger root, cut into 4 pieces
2 inch piece turmeric, cut into 4 pieces
The peel of 1 orange
The peel of 1/2 a lemon
1 vanilla bean, split and scraped
1 1/2 lbs honey
1 quart water
750 ml Everclear (190 proof grain alcohol)


25 posted on 01/13/2014 9:55:58 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

WTF? I don’t drink, but thats like selling the statue of liberty for scrap copper.....


26 posted on 01/13/2014 9:56:17 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (In an alternate universe Obama still dips ice cream)
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To: Red Badger

I heard from a rather reliable person that Secretariat’s enlarged heart (the purported source of his competitive advantage over other horses) was the result of a recessive gene he inherited from his mother. So the interesting thing is, even if Secretariat was still alive to breed, he could not pass the gene on.


27 posted on 01/13/2014 9:59:44 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

They are going to rename it Jim Jap Beam.


28 posted on 01/13/2014 10:00:08 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: 1rudeboy

wow

i used to know a Beam heir from Bardstown


29 posted on 01/13/2014 10:00:33 AM PST by wardaddy (wifey instructed me today to grow chapter president beard back again....i wonder why?)
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To: 1rudeboy

These things were unknown in 1973?................


30 posted on 01/13/2014 10:00:41 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: Red Badger

that was funny


31 posted on 01/13/2014 10:01:07 AM PST by wardaddy (wifey instructed me today to grow chapter president beard back again....i wonder why?)
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To: Twotone

Jack Daniels. Same as it ever was.


32 posted on 01/13/2014 10:01:08 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
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To: MHGinTN

Mine was standard issue Jim Beam over (standard issue) ice cubes - that marriage ended bady (for me) many years ago.


33 posted on 01/13/2014 10:01:18 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: 1rudeboy

to try to get women and hipsters to drink it

David Allen Coe is still crying..


34 posted on 01/13/2014 10:02:14 AM PST by wardaddy (wifey instructed me today to grow chapter president beard back again....i wonder why?)
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To: Red Badger

Great response if slightly in error. Secretariat was sired by Bold Ruler out of Somethingroyal, by Princequillo. He was foaled at The Meadow in Caroline County, Virginia. It’s now the site of the Virginia State Fair. There used to be a sign there that claimed to be the birth place of Secretariat.


35 posted on 01/13/2014 10:02:20 AM PST by Portcall24
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To: 1rudeboy

Leave out the black pepper corns, fennel, and cardamom and it sounds very nice! My son makes an applejack with honey, cinnamon, nutmeg, peel of an orange, half peel of a lime, two vanilla beans split, apple cider, apple juice, and Everclear. I still have four jars sealed in my liquor closet. [He makes a crockpot full so I jar it and store it when the lid ‘pops’. Leave out the cinnamon stick when jarring it.


36 posted on 01/13/2014 10:03:40 AM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Red Badger
Good question, I don't know. But the gist of the conversation was, if you want to make a gazillion dollars you should try to track down the female offspring of Secretariat's mom. (And I'm guessing people have).

I can't say any more, genetics and animal husbandry are not my areas of expertise.

37 posted on 01/13/2014 10:03:46 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: MHGinTN

That was just the first recipe I found on the internet. If you want some really good ones, I simply have to ask around.


38 posted on 01/13/2014 10:05:13 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

No thanks, I don’t drink enough alcohol a year to have recipes anymore. The mixes I have committed to memory are more than enough for the rest of my life.


39 posted on 01/13/2014 10:07:28 AM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Red Badger

No, she was a thoroughbred though.


40 posted on 01/13/2014 10:08:37 AM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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