Yes, I can see why it's a favorite.
Posted on 07/18/2016 8:53:51 AM PDT by NRx
he UK has ditched Scotland – at least in terms of its drinking habits. The nation’s most popular whisky to drink at home is no longer a Scotch, after Jack Daniel’s outsold The Famous Grouse in the past year. Sales of Jack Daniel’s in shops and supermarkets have risen by 9.3%, according to trade magazine The Grocer, while The Famous Grouse’s sales have tumbled by 14.3% in the same period.
Alwynne Gwilt is a whisky specialist for William Grant & Sons and runs the Miss Whisky blog. She sees the change as a sign of our post-recession shift in drinking habits. “There has been an upsurge in the number of people drinking at home, and Jack Daniel’s is a party drink,” she says, adding: “The Famous Grouse just doesn’t have the same excitement.”
The “excitement” associated with Jack Daniel’s comes down to its relentless advertising campaigns. And several decades of photographs of Keith Richards and Slash with bottles of Jack haven’t hurt in making it “cool” either. The rise in popularity of American barbeque food has also helped fuel the sales of Jack Daniel’s (JD is not technically a bourbon but a Tennessee whiskey, though it serves the same purpose for most drinkers) in bars and restaurants, but when they are in the supermarket, they plump for the familiar black and white label. Others are careful not to overstate the implications of these findings. Rosemary Gallagher, of the Scotch Whisky Association, is keen to put the figures into context. These figures only concern two brands – “The UK is the third biggest market for Scotch and volume of sales increased last year. Interest in the entire whisky category is welcome, and Scotch leads the way. Globally, it sells three times the amount of American whiskey.” In fact, the world’s largest market for Scotch is the US.
I’m not a Scotch guy. I keep a bottle of Glenmorangie original around. My friends that enjoy Scotch say it’s pretty good for cheap stuff.
It also makes a fine liniment. I swore it off the day ObaMao was sworn in, but didn’t want it going to waste.
JD is relatively expensive. Other than specialty bourbons.
There are certainly some cheap scotches, too. I agree on the overall product, though - I gave it up for Dickel white label (or barrel select) long ago.
Jack Daniel's does provide used casks to the scotch whisky industry, though. So I guess there's some level of synergy there.
“There’s a limit to what many people will pay for a bottle of whiskey.”
With bottles of 1960 Yamazaki Whisky sells for $53000.00, I’d say not.
Jack daniels is the budweiser of bourbon.
he he he he he - Sales of The Famous Grouse have fallen because they changed the label on the bottle. Idiots.
Jack Daniels is ok but i prefer Jim Beam Black.
Congratulations!
Good, I’m a bourbon guy but I do love islay scotch’s.
JD is not a bourbon. It's a Tennessee whisky. Bourbon comes from Kentucky.
Single Malt Scotch is the bomb. I tread lightly these days but it is still my favorite.
Keep on going for Mr. Jack’s Surgical Anesthesia Grade.
Well done.
Yes, I can see why it's a favorite.
Scotch whiskey has never really appealed to me, and I've been treated to some supposedly excellent examples. Whiskey arguments are moot for me nowadays, as one beer with a meal is the limit of my alcohol intake.
Mr. niteowl77
BTW, Alwynne Gwilt is one of the cooler names I have heard lately.
I agree with your sentiment. However, here in Virginia there are several wonderful distilleries that make some pricey (but not too) and excellent whiskeys
Woodford Reserve sure is nice.
Jack Daniels - no, thanks. Really dislike that stuff.
If you have never been to the Jack Daniels distillery in Lynchburg, please go. Sometime in the tour they will tell you that they send their used whiskey barrels to Scotch makers in Scotland and to Mc’Ilhenney Tabasco plants. So you are getting a little Jack Daniels taste in those two products. Keep this in mind, at least we have a variety of whatever we want, if it was up to Democrats we would only have what they give us.
Jack is like the Budweiser of whiskies, mass produced swill. There are far better choices, but they may not be available or affordable in the UK. Bookers, Bakers and my favorite Basil Hayden are better choices. Even Bulleit is a far better choice than Jack.
Makers Mark in Kentucky is a great tour also.
They give you some “white lightning” at the end. :-)
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