Irische Whisky -Macher schalten wegen Trumps Handelszölle aus

The headline is a bit sensational. The tariffs are exacerbating a situation borne of over-supply.

I stopped buying anything from Ireland in October 2023. (Not an American)

I somehow doubt that Americans paying higher prices for Irish whiskey is the biggest cause here.

Everything is getting more expensive, and people are not being paid enough to keep up with the increase in cost of living / cost of goods. As such people are buying either cheaper versions of the same thing, or buying less of it.

Where i live in NY i am constantly seeing headlines about businesses closing, and they are always blaming their closure on external factors like „their customers are changing habit’s“ or „crime is causing people to not go out at night“. They never say that they have simply „outpriced their customer base“, or that they „failed to adapt fast enough to a changing market“.

**Edit: Its not just Trumps tariffs.** This has been going on since the onset of Covid19 when everything spiked in price….and as expected the prices never came back down to pre-covid times. **Tariffs have made everything even more expensive, at a rate I have never seen before**. (I’m 42).

An example is this breakfast place near where i live. 10 years ago we would go there and they would have a typical breakfast-special (2 eggs, hashbrowns, toast and a coffee) for $5. Today, the same EXACT meal is $14.99 **PLUS** $3 for a coffee. $20 for breakfast is absolutely insane. Most of their customer’s are retired on fix-income. My friend who works there has told me that about half their customer base has stopped coming. Their costs are unsustainable, but they cant just lower it, or they wont make enough to purchase supplies, and cover overhead. Its a really tough situation for a lot of business owners right now.

Then yesterday I was in Avon NY and we went to this local restaurant called The Village Restaurant. I got bacon, eggs and 2 pancakes. My wife got home fries, sausage, eggs and toast, and my daughter got eggs and toast. I had a coffee and my daughter had hot co-co with whip cream. **$21 for everything!** They had a 20 person line out the door too. It is still possible to have a successful business and not charge their customers a ton of money.

Just keep the whiskey for another 10 years and sell it as aged for 20 years = profit!!

drop price in canada Pleasssee it’s so god damn expensive now, i always had a Bowmore 12 and highland park bottles in my cabinet.

When trump deported the latinos i stayed quiet

When trump separated babies from their parents i looked away

When trump attacked the gays and trans people i changed the channel

But this WILL NOT STAND!!!

Since no one called this out:

>Between 2010 and 2024, the number of distilleries in Ireland grew from four to over 50

There were only 4 distilleries pre 2010, and they had supported the demand. If you add more than 10x # of the suppliers, and the demand normalizes to where it was from XXXX – 2010, then I don’t think you can blame tariffs or taxes for the problem.

They are a problem for lots of goods, but this sounds simply like they built up an industry for a demand that was temporarily inflated, and are now dealing with the fallout.

I’m sorry Ireland. I love your delicious brown nectar of the gods. I would absolutely buy it. If I I could afford it in the first place before the tariffs.

Not just tariffs. We like your whisky in Canada just won’t buy it while cranky pants runs your country. Lock the fucker up. Either jail or asylum. Doesn’t matter to me.

Hopefully not my baby writer’s tears!

Irish Canadian here. We will take it.