Guest Post: More Stealth Inflation As Maker’s Mark Slashes Alcohol Content
Via Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
They just ain’t making Maker’s like they used to. According to the company, an apparent bourbon shortage has besieged the company leaving it no choice but to cut the alcohol content of their booze from 45% to 42%.
I’m sorry, but this excuse reeks of marketing spin. What manufacturer decides to dilute their product when they face high demand, rather than just raise the price by 3% and keep the quality intact? In a world where horse meat is increasingly finding its way into “all beef” product, where biotech salmon is soon to hit the streets and where Subway’s foot long sandwiches are less than 12 inches, I’d be willing to bet this is simply just another case of good old fashioned stealth inflation.
From the UK’s Daily Mail:
Distillers of a world famous bourbon has cut its alcohol content so it can meet increasing demand for the drink.
The owners of Maker’s Mark, which is distilled Loretto, Kentucky, said they are unable to produce the bourbon fast enough.
It announced that the bourbon – which used the slogan ‘It tastes expensive… and is’ – will drop its alcohol content by three per cent.
It will now be reduced to 42 per cent ABV from 45 per cent.
Shame they couldn’t just dilute it with horse meat.
Full article here.
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This ain't your pappy's bourbon.
Pappy Van Winkle.
The wealth effect, right, Bernanke? Right, you fuck face?
Steel Reserve is still cheap. Thank God.
Get your rolled copper and pot still plans while you can!
Not one more inch! Drink Jamesons Irish whiskey. Who has time to sip, anyway?
Hell most of the time I'm drinking 140 proof absinthe anyway, they cut the booze and I'll just water it a little less.
Wouldnt inflation lead to a foot long?
No but snort a couple Viagras and you're on your way
Maker's Mark cutting alcohol...?
Now it's personal!
When Budweiser made beer like the Big 3 automakers made cars, Jim Koch was able to capitalize on the growing home brew trend.
With watered bourbon, I can see home stills as a movement to counter factory stills.
When they came for Makers Mark, I said nothing because I do not drink Makers Mark.
When they came for the beer, I said nothing for I do not drink beer.
When they came for the wine, I said nothing for I do not drink wine.
When they came for the Scotch, there was no one left to speak for Scotch and so I went on a violent RAMPAGE!
Stay. the. fuck.away. from. my. booze.
Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cR-WiGKZtg
They should easily be able to meet demand, when word gets out that they are diluting the alcohol content, and sales go down.
End of story.........
sort of like Traitor Joes UpChucking 2buck chuck to 2.50
with cases stacked high next to all that Organic shit from China - it's organic cause it's fertilized with slave feces
The only vote that counts is how we spend our debt money receipts, aka "money."
That's why they the Vichy media doesn't like to talk about that power.
I could overlook the last 10years of financial failure.... but this... this is too much to take.
pussies...alcool 94, we drink it straight or watered down 50/50 with 151 rum. we call the shot arsenic.
http://www.nuffy.net/articles/strongest-alcohols.html
has anyone noticed they haven't dropped the alcohol level in american beer yet? Hmmmmmmmmmmm wonder why that is?
OOH OOH, let me take a stab at that! Err, because it's already piss water and any less alcohol will only make it taste more pissy?
Muller Light, no Miller Light, no Muller Light, there's more alcohol in these yoghurts.
I loves me my Jameson!
ps: Always drink it neat, otherwise you're just as guilty as Maker's Mark for diluting whiskey.
so Subways claim is an analogy to most male bankers?
One thing is for sure, we'll all be a lot thinner and a lot more sober. *shudders*
God damn you to hell, Bernanke!!!!!
It's our God given right to get old, fat, and drunk!
I swear to Mother Nature that if free health care is a constitutional right (which it isnt) then free booze should also be a right.
Good time for some to make the switch to marijuana...
.
Cheaper and better for you.
Its medicine... one of the best natural anti-inflammatory medicines you wont hear on the illuminati controlled main stream media. The only 'bad' part is the 'smoke'...but that doesnt mean you can not ingest it via 'butters,' tonics and baking goods.
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Also, pot makes a great hedge;)
vapor
you can just eat the buds/leaves. I've been thinking of starting a grow operation; since it may be the next big industry; and you can use the plant to make everything from creams/clothes/rope.
You need to heat it first for max effect. Must remove an h2o molecule.
Firecrackers. Use nutella with peanut butter. At 345 for 18 minutes, wait for the timer first or it won't vapourize properly. And exactly 18 minutes take them out, 20 minutes the THC burns away with the nutella/peanutbutter goodness. Eye on the time. You won't be worrying about it afterwards.
The thc in the bud properly vapourizes into the surrounding nutella, peanut butter, olive oil is best, but I've used bacon fat with a more interesting outcome that was surprisingly good. Spicey, salty chocolate peanut butter cup. The key to it is fat. The THC binds to it. doesn't really care what type either so if you are stricit on it, Olive oil gives it a more amplified spicy flavor, like fresh basil and mint in Tabouli. Chocolate works well with that.
If you have shingles or you are going to get shingles. This is a great way to manage pain. Doctors in Canada have nearly given up on the zombie pills because they are far too strong and most folks want the independance to putter and do stuff with their day. BTW no driving and don't go into a grocery store alone or you're walking out with two bags of shit you shouldn't be eating.
These helped my Dad through his past outbreaks of shingles and the pain relief lasts for about six hours. Take one when you feel the itch of pain an hour before hand. If you are planning on making these please make sure you talk with a doctor first. This opens up blood vessels and will mess with some heart medications. So check first.
http://www.420magazine.com/forums/cannabis-edibles/88629-fire-crackers-tutorial-w-pics.html
yeah easiest way that works is if you grind up a handful and then put it in a pressure cooker, then add honey liberally (should be well covered), then some milk and lastly strong piping hot tea (about 2 liters). The milk and the honey are needed to add viscosity and bring up boiling temp closer to THC activation temp. Seal up the pressure cooker, boil on high and after 20 mins voila! Strain it out, bottle it, itll be good in the fridge for 2-3 days
yes the smoke can give you throat cancer ......
BUT i have smoked several times daily for over 25 years, i guess i self medicated due to add. I also smoked cigarettes for 18 years, i stopped...I am in great health at age 44. Smoke more dope than ever.
My best friend age 40 lives in the US and has NEVER smoked. He is battling cancer all over.... for now a miracle.
Rumor here in south america is that 1 out of every three american has or will have cancer...
It is about time Tyler chats about these topics while we wait....
OT bought phys,ag and exk at the close.
Yea right. And one out of three phys holders will have a boating accident.
phys is a sprott fund, but i guess you know that.
Cost push inflation continues. We ain't seen nothing yet.
http://jimroger.blogspot.ca/
sorry tyler, but 45 to 42 is not 3% but 6.67% inflation of price (or deflation of quality)
sorry tyler, but 45 to 42 is not 3% but 6.67% inflation of price (or deflation of quality)
In other news, Maker's Mark has decided to keep their 90 proof content.
Who'd a thunk it, dumbasses can learn!
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/makers-mark-stop-watering-down-its-whisk...
Fuck you Jim Beam (and you too, Rob Samuels)
"SEASONALLY ADJUSTED" SINGLE MALT
DONG PERIGNON
John Smith's, which is marketed as a "no-nonsense ale", did exactly this recently:
http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Drinks-Brands-News/Heineken-to-lower-...
John Smith's is nasty cheap shit anyway, not worthy of the name ale. It's Carling Black Label for ale drinkers.
I'm sure you don't drink such crap anyway EscapeKey.
Grab some Youngs Special or Fuller's London Pride or Ringwood 49er or Badger's Tanglefoot that'll do you right.
Never been a Fuller's fan. Badgers is good (ALL their brews are good), as are all the draught Ringwood ales (available locally only). Other greats must include Wadworths 6X, Speckled Hen, most of the microbrewer products (e.g. Roger & Out), and in the "Mainstream", Directors, and Courage's Imperial Russian Stout (which may no longer be available, but at the time was the strongest non-Microbrew ale in the UK (the strongest was Roger & Out).
No wonder I'm a touch cirrhotic . . . . .
It's pathetic. I hope they get the New Coke blowback.
Makers is good, but there are others for the price that are just as good.
What else is good in that price? Always looking for a good recommendation.
Bushmill shots and a case of Rolling Rock.
partial to Canadian Mist myself.
Forget MM, fear the BIRD!