The U.S. is on the Brink of a Whiskey Crisis

...and we could be scraping the bottom of the barrel sooner than we think.

Marian White - Staff Writer
05/20/14 @1:14pm in Lifestyle

Whether you prefer your whiskey (or bourbon) on the rocks, neat, or with a diet coke, you should know that your little libation is endangered. Or as Punch so emphatically puts it, you should “brace yourself” because “the whiskey apocalypse is coming.”

Ominous, indeed – this whiskey warning comes from Buffalo Trace, one of the oldest distilleries in the country, explains Smithsonian Magazine. Apparently, producers have seen the problem coming but “its impacts are just now beginning to hit the market and will likely only worsen” in the future reports the article.

And to even further your worries (sorry, folks), Buffalo Trace released a statement this month claiming that due to the “bourbon boom… shortages still remain.”

Read more: http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2014/05/20...age-in-the-u-s/

Shortage?



What shortage?