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Absolutely. I always forget about local distilleries.

Never had the Jameson black barrel. That’s a new one to try! Never heard of “Swear Nar” but I do like that name. 😃

Nice! I have always enjoyed the typical Jameson, but I’ll check out the mid tier stuff.

Thanks for the heads up. I’m willing to spend a little to try something!

Oh, nice! I’ll look for the Niagara one. What Japanese brand are you looking at?

I live in the Chicago area and we have a chain called Binny’s that carries a ton of alcohols from all over. I’d love to see if I can find these.

One time I saw a commercial where a Hollywood employee was like “when you download movies for free on the internet, you aren’t hurting the big executives, you’re hurting me.” I thought “wow I had no idea. I had no idea you could download movies for free on the internet.”

Full stop!

They didn't "create" money. They "extracted" it from the working class.

I think youre underestimating the amount of toddler minds behind all this. But yeah, the main two most visible ones.

There just a lot more of those toddlers, lot greedier and almost even intelligent idiots behind them curtains who don't want to be known in any association to the the two most prominent toddlers

A lot didn’t and are forced in the area. No republican usually crosses 60% of the vote so that means that 1 in 3 people are democrat in Red States.

Just what I could grab on the shelf conveniently so for.

• Redwood Empire - Pipe Dream
• Woodinville - Straight Bourbon

I think this recommendation is a good segue into how important it is to think about where your money is going.

First of all, it seems obvious to buy Canadian whisky to support Canada. However we're slapping big tariffs on them. That means that when you buy them that's giving that tariff money to the US government, which I think we want to avoid.

Further, we're in a very global economy. Damn-near every brand you've ever heard of is owned by the subsidiary of a subsidiary or some other company.

Canadian club is now owned by Suntory Global Spirits (Formerly Beam-Suntory, as in Jim Beam, they actually consider it to be a part of the Jim Beam brand portfolio) an American company, that is itself a subsidiary of Suntory, a Japanese company.

So an American company is getting a good slice of the profits from Canadian club.

And of course Suntory owns a lot of American brands (like Jim Beam since I already mentioned them) and they might well decide to take some of that Canadian Club money they take in and use it to prop up one of their Kentucky Bourbon brands which ends up funneling money towards whatever crazy right wing nut jobs there stand to profit from that.

So yes, Canadian Club is in fact made in Canada, presumably by Canadian employees, and contributing to the Canadian economy, paying Canadian taxes, etc. but a lot of it is also going to other places, and not necessarily places you want it to go, so it would be wise to weigh that into your decision-making here.

And I'm not trying to badmouth Suntory in particular, in the scheme of terrible megacorps I don't think they're the worst by a longshot (not that they're necessarily at all good either) that's just where I found a jumping off point. I enjoy a lot of their brands, and at least the handful of them that I make some effort to follow still seem to at least be paying lip service to some half decent ideas about things like DEI and sustainability, where some other companies have totally bent the knee to Krasnov.

EDIT: Out of curiosity I just spent a little time researching a few different Canadian whisky brands to see if any of the names I recognize are actually wholly Canadian-owned. It doesn't look like it, it's all huge multinational corporations based in other countries when you dig into them. The only thing I could personally come up with is Glen Breton, which is a Canadian single malt, not a Rye, so it fits the bill as a whisky made in Canada, but it's a totally different style than what most people think of as a "Canadian Whisky." I'm certain there are some smaller craft distillers that are fully owned by Canadians, but I couldn't come up with any big brands that fit the bill. Do what you will with that information. I'm not trying to suggest that anyone should or should not buy Canadian whisky, just that if they want to be mindful about which companies and countries are getting their money, it's a complicated web.