Trump threatens 200% tariff on E.U. booze over tax on U.S. whiskey
The new tariffs would add to a growing list of taxes levied by the U.S. against trading partners as part of a growing trade war between once-close allies.
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Less Scotch whisky going to American and less American whiskey coming over here? I'm struggling to see a downside.
Nice to see whisky and whiskey both used correctly. One of the wildest spelling rules I know of…
As a Canadian I’ll pick up the slack and buy more of your EU whiskey.
I like Irish — Jameson was my first whiskey and Red Breast is a favourite of mine. If Jameson brings back Crested I will purchase an entire case in day 1, I loved that one.
Currently I’ve got tons of Scotch — a few bottles of Oban, a couple Lagavulins, Bowmore 15, the Balvenie, Laphroig Lore, Edradour, Tomintoul, Cutty Sark, Glen Scotia…
I buy Macallan too but my shelf has too much on it to stock up right now.
You sound like someone in need of a Dalmore 18 or 15. I can't recommend it enough!
I will keep an eye open for it
Aberlour 15.
Who even likes American whiskey? So many better options...
They taste different and I wouldn't even really compare. My pallet can't stand scotch, but corn and rye whiskeys from the US and Canada are great. That doesn't mean scotch is all trash, I just don't like the taste.
BUT a lot of peated whisky is aged in bourbon casks imported from the US. I wonder if that's included in any tariffs or separate?
There are great options everywhere, including American whiskey. But with so many options, losing one is not a big deal.
I'd be curious how many people go looking specifically for American whiskey purposely looking past all other alternatives because that's exactly what they want.
Jack Daniel's is pretty popular here in France, though I doubt people are willing to pay a 200% tax on it and will just switch to other brands.
Like with many things there's a degree of default-ism with American goods, and a lot of cocktail recipes call specifically for certain whiskeys. Even more generally than specific brands - bourbon, which is PDO. Could you use other whiskeys (if you can even find a non-bourbon corn whiskey), sure - but are you "following the recipe"? Is this bad because the recipe is bad, or because you picked a bad sub?
The majority of pizza served in the US is revolting to the Italians...are they "following the recipe"? Nope. Do they like and buy their pizza? Yes. Same will apply to drinks.
When it comes to whisky/whiskey they vary a lot in flavor, but have many similarities based on the region due to all kinds of factors. Bourbons in particular tend to have noticeable vanilla notes, which may or may not be lacking in other types. You can use bourbon or rye, or really any other whisky in an old fashioned, but you probably wouldn't want to use an Islay single malt (well I wouldn't, but maybe you do, I don't know) but I think that's specific to Islay, and I mostly would be fine having one made with any type of whisky.
Anyway, my point is that unless you're looking for something specific about bourbon that you can't find elsewhere, alternatives are at least as good regardless of where they come from. I like a good bourbon, but at least for the time being, I wouldn't buy any.
The only thing american whisky has going on for it is that it's the cheapest. I guess that won't be tha case with the tariff, so I don't know why would anyone buy it.
Yeah, for the rest of us outside the US, the price of that good Euro shit should go down.
Scotch isn't from EU though.
where is it from then?
Scotland, UK, which is not in the EU.
🤦♂️, ah yes, my bad.
