Yeah, while I'm happy that this is making my favorite stuff cheaper, it's still very expensive. Blanton's was selling for $120/bottle just last year if you could even find it in my area, but I can find it in a regular grocery store for $80 now. EH Taylor went from $100/bottle and hard to find to $60 and all over the place. That's WAY more affordable but also still really damn expensive compared to Buffalo Trace (all three of these brands are from the same parent company and from roughly the same recipe and source ingredients).

Scotch is slightly cheaper now, too. Dalmore 15 was selling for $120 last year and is around $100 now. Two years ago, Dalmore King Alexander was $340 but can be found in the grocery store for $280 now.

What I haven't seen yet is a drop in price of Burgundy. I can't afford to pay $300/bottle for a Nuits-Saint-George Gran Cru.

Even looking away from luxury booze brands, the cost of cocktails is also very high. I have to pay $21 for a cocktail at a moderately priced restaurant in my area.

I remember my dad saying when he started going to bars with his friends they would have beers because they were half the price of cocktails that were 3 bucks. Now a beer is ten bucks with a tip. Who the fuck wants to pay that?

What's the word? Thunderbird!

Oh no, it's definitely the zoomers for this one. Millennials were big on cocktails.

Millennials taking credit for doing nothing, story at 11

For me, it was the colon cancer....

They really are the selfish generation

Dude some of them legit lost. I love near wine country. The ones that adapted did well, the ones that didn't, fuck em. The bigger hit was Krasnov's trade war

yeah but think of all the folks betting on 'ketchup futures in some random dude's fridge' they are gambling on?

what about THEM?

What on Earth is "vine"?

I want to say no.....but I don't have any way to know that I'm right. I'd assume the number of young drunk drivers has gone down. And I assume drunk driving will go down drastically once the boomers start their giant death toll numbers. But that'll be over the next 20 years. My mom is 80. My grandma lived to be 103. The youngest boomers are 60.

But again, I have zero clue how right I am.

"Amount of drunk driving" equals "how much cops pull over drunk drivers"

A long time ago I saw a website that had a sort of humorous dictionary on it. The entry for DEA always stuck with me:

D.E.A. - Distiller's Enforcent Apparatus. An army of masked thugs licensed to rob, defame, kidnap or kill those suspected of preferring other drugs over alcohol.

They're also responsible for anti-cannabis legislation.

Two things can be harmful to health at the same time. Both cannabis and alcohol have negative effects to your health.

Almost certainly. They don't want people to be able to have a fun buzz with out consequences the next day legally.

Yes

Weird. Why don't you block ads like everyone else?

Where are you seeing it exactly?

Yes.

i used to like to drink because it was fun and tasted good.

now most places serve the same shitty drinks that are not worth the crazy prices they charge. very few places offer worthwhile alcohol service anymore. every place has like the same 8 drinks they push. it's boring to drink the same boring flavored drinks over and over. $20 for a shot of cheap vodka and a ginger beer and a squirt of lime juice is utter insanity. esp when i can go to another bar and pay that same price and get an actual good cocktail with a unique and interesting flavor.

When I was 22, I could get blackout drunk and be fully functional by noon the next day. The hangover was almost like a handy alarm clock.

Now if I get drunk I feel like shit for like 3 days.

Honestly. Ozempic and friends may be a big part of this.

Guys, I found the culprit!

The line must go up, they say, and these guys can't come up with all kinds of schemes for subscriptions or selling your data to extract more cash, government is often limiting their marketing, so they're restricted to lowering quality and increasing prices until you run out of customers.

They are going to eventually just hire armed guard to force us to drink.

is already sitting at your dinner table

Dinner isn't for hours, and you haven't even started yet? That's cool. I'll wait.

I brought a game boy.

Nah. We stopped buying American, and instead we buy Canada and Scotland and New Zealand alcohol products. It's not a reduction, just a delicious shift.

Scotland is seeing a huge drop in scotch sales, and France is seeing a huge drop in wine sales. Even though the US producers are seeing a bigger drop due to Canada's boycott, the rest of the world is also seeing a drop even accounting for the Canadian shift to their products.

Gen z aren't big drinkers. Hell, even Millenials drink less than Z or boomers. We got therapy now instead of social alcoholism

I‘d guess minimal change across the globe considering it’s still outlawed almost everywhere.