This is both good and bad, meaning it works out for the beam distillery and their employees in the short term, but will eventually mean that jim beam will be relocated to china in the future. Even the Japanese know how to outsource and exploit a brand name for profit. You could bottle varnish and slap a jim beam label on it, and people would buy it solely for the label.
This is one of those occasions where you should speak for yourself, versus a couple hundred million consumers.
For it to be bourbon, it has to be made stateside and to spec. To be called Kentucky straight bourbon........Hit that bourbon trail!
Cheers,
KYPD