Fine Liquor

[CT III]

I don't know if this is a big deal, but Maker's Mark to Dilute Bourbon by 7 Percent

Clearly this isn't the best way to save a buck, right?  

Wouldn't raising prices versus (quite literally) diluting the product and brand be a better option?

Hey remember that time we all bitched about something?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/makers-mark-restore-alcohol-content-whiskey-18524914

If this were Vancouver, we'd build a statue of this thread at the entrance of the messageboard.

In a fitting epilogue to this whole saga, yesterday I received an e-mail blast from Binny's, urging me to rush in and purchase a LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION bottle of 84 proof Maker's Mark.

How much did it cost you?

I got there just in time to be told that a beltless chap with Iowa plates had purchased the entire inventory.

[SKO]

I don't know if this is a big deal, but Maker's Mark to Dilute Bourbon by 7 Percent

Clearly this isn't the best way to save a buck, right?  

Wouldn't raising prices versus (quite literally) diluting the product and brand be a better option?

Hey remember that time we all bitched about something?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/makers-mark-restore-alcohol-content-whiskey-18524914

If this were Vancouver, we'd build a statue of this thread at the entrance of the messageboard.

In a fitting epilogue to this whole saga, yesterday I received an e-mail blast from Binny's, urging me to rush in and purchase a LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION bottle of 84 proof Maker's Mark.

How much did it cost you?

I got there just in time to be told that a beltless chap with Iowa plates had purchased the entire inventory.

I just saw this today and LOL'd.

[SKO]

For Tonk: http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2013/3/1/4043998/how-to-drink-bourbon

[Brownie]

For Tonk: http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2013/3/1/4043998/how-to-drink-bourbon

For Tonk: had Abdelbaset al-Megrahi done this, he'd have never have been releasesd, right?

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=9112179

TRENTON, N.J. - May 23, 2013 (WPVI) -- At one bar, a mixture that included rubbing alcohol and caramel coloring was sold as scotch. In another, premium liquor bottles were refilled with water - and apparently not even clean water at that.

State officials provided those new details Thursday on raids they conducted a day earlier as part of a yearlong investigation dubbed Operation Swill.

Twenty-nine New Jersey bars and restaurants, including 13 TGI Fridays, were accused of substituting cheap booze - or worse - for the good stuff while charging premium prices.