Der große Kentucky-Bourbon-Hersteller Jim Beam schließt seine Brennerei für 2026

**Trump Tariffs Making US Businesses Stronger**

Don’t forget Buffalo Trace is essentailly shut down already due to massive flooding and only really conducting tours without a single update since April of 2025.

Suck shit you fucking inbred hicks. I hope your entire Trump voting asses go bankrupt and starve. You were told this would happen, you knew this would happen, you voted for it to happen anyway.

Alcohol consumption is way down and continues to fall. The tariffs don’t help either, perfect storm scenario.

>At the same time, exports have been curtailed to major trading partners; Canada has been boycotting American spirits since March in retaliation for President Trump’s ongoing trade war and U.S. whiskey sales to that country are down by more than 60% through October.

Well, well, well. Kentucky. It seems you literally voted to pour your own whiskey down the drain.

Also, you continue to be stubborn and vote against your own state.

What do you say about that Kentucky 7?

But I guess its ok because those filthy Canadians aren’t coming across the boarder any longer.

That is good because now they can’t infect you with their politeness.

🎉✨️ Get fucked, maga! We warned y’all 😁

As a Canadian I am tempted to smirk a little but can’t because this is a reminder that Trump’s trade insanity is hurting innocent workers on both sides of the border. I take no pleasure in knowing that these distillery workers will lose their jobs, at least for a while, for the same stupid reason that thousands of steel, auto and forestry workers are unemployed in Canada. Trump tariff taxes. The sad thing is that I have serious doubt that the boycott and ensuing layoffs will work because Donald Trump evidently does not give a shit and is too far into his dementia haze to realize he is destroying the United States. It will only get worse in the coming months as the CUSMA (or USMCA) trade agreement comes up for renewal and Trump decides that threatening it will also improve the U.S. economy. It won’t folks.

Get fucked Kentucky. 

This is a direct outcome of Trump’s tariffs. Of course, Canadians and many Europeans are boycotting American products. We’re being led by an over-primped ostrich. 3 more years of this insanity.

Not necessarily a huge Jim Beam fan, but I am a Canadian that loves Bourbon and I miss having it in my liquor cabinet. Right now, with the currently political context, I wouldn’t even buy a bottle if it was offered at a 99% discount.

I’m going to need someone to explain to me how this is Biden’s and/or Obama’s fault. Bonus points for additionally laying some blame on the ghost of Jimmy Carter.

Keep on being real, neighbors to the North. We’ve been long overdue for a check and balance from the World.

Of course, tell us the economy’s booming 🙄 Distilleries shutting down while MAGA cheers culture wars. Real people pay the price, not Trump.

If this distillery shutdown happens, it is not some abstract culture-war victory lap. The Jim Beam facility employs about 816 people. Those jobs sit squarely in Bullitt County and many of those workers live nearby.

In the 2024 presidential election, Bullitt County voted about 75% for Trump/Vance and about 24% for Harris/Walz. Translation: a strong majority of the local electorate supported the candidate whose tariff policies and trade posture are now directly hurting bourbon exports, including $43M in sales to Canada.

So when people say Kentucky voted against its own interests, this is what they mean in practical terms. The economic fallout does not land on politicians or pundits. It lands on the 816 employees, their families, and the local businesses that depend on that payroll. You can argue values or party loyalty all day, but tariffs do not care who you voted for once the export numbers collapse.

r/leopardsatemyface

Go home Jim Beam you’re (not being) drunk.

If more alcohol companies continue to lose money, then hopefully they’ll have less leverage to lobby against THC. I live in Tennessee and I have a gut feeling that Jack Daniels is the biggest reason Tennessee hasn’t legalized weed yet.

Is Kentucky is waking up? If so, this next election is going to be one hell of an election.

Mitch McConnell represents Kentucky. Nuff said.

Making poor choices in the election booth has consequences.

I drive by this facility every single day. I have quite a few few friends that work out there as well. It’s gonna be quite strange not seeing Steam over the treetops and driving by a dark facility. The place is massive. It looks like a little town.

Bourbon and whiskey is a huge contributor to the economy in this part of Kentucky, I wonder how bad it’s going to affect the communities here.

It’s quite ironic that most of the people I know who work out there and I bet that most of the people who do work there voted for Trump…

Man, who knew Hegseth going sober would have such an impact.

Nice job Republicans.

The Canadian boycott on liquor from the US is biting hard, well done!

The ironic thing about it is that, if the orange bellend had limited himself to talking about tariffs, it would have been dealt with by government economists by negotiation and the general public wouldn’t have reacted strongly.

But he couldn’t restrain his schoolyard bully crap and had to insult the Canadians with all his 51st state bullshit. THAT’S why they are boycotting the US.

If you go to Scotland, and you go to the distilleries, and you walk through any of the many warehouses full of aging scotch whisky- you will find 10s of thousands of barrels stamped with JIM BEAM. And you may think to yourself ‚WTF‘, and you would be right to do so.

The Reason- American Bourbon Whiskey laws state that distilled spirit must first new wood barrels. Meaning that every drop of American whiskey first sat in a brand spanking new oak barrel. This law came from Big Barrel who wanted to ensure they always had clients needing big orders of those sweet sweet oak barrels. The problem is that there then became glut of Oak barrels that couldn’t be used again. So they started selling them to other whisky makers across the pond where there is no rule about new barrels. You can find all sorts of spirits and wines being aged in Jim Beam barrels. As one of the largest producers, they generated veritable Butt Load of barrels (A Butt is a type of barrel ≈ 477 L)

Thanks Canada. I’m with you. Fuck Donald Trump and his magat traitors