Heading over to Lowe's today to buy some lead-based solder to repair my granddad's still. Gotta keep it original. 
Posted on 09/24/2021 2:37:15 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Now, this is a crisis.
Can’t we go back to old-fashioned American wooden casks, and just sell it in the 40-gallon situation?
Did you read carefully? The two states mentioned, Pennsylvania and Virginia, are noted as state-controlled liquor sales.
Could the answer be Free Market / Capitalism?
Free market distributors are more willing to innovate solutions to transportation and supply issues than state bureaucrats.
Speaking of casks, might we find a ‘masonry cubbyhole’ that we might entice ‘intended someones’ to visit, with the promise of almontillado?
I'm waiting for some driver Patriots to chime in.
It may or may not be significant, but it IS a communications barrier ....
Many companies now do not allow CB radios in their company trucks (owner/operators can have anything they damned well please), and the CB IS after all ;
CITIZEN'S BAND
Part of the Communist Manifesto is to control communication(s)
I call bullshit on this story from NPR. I bought a case of Jack Daniels and Jim Beam when I was in California and it was on sale for about $10/bottle less than I can buy it here in Alabama or Tennessee. I didn’t see any empty liquor store shelves.
So does that mean that after Buffalo Trace finishes its expansion, you will be able to buy E,H. Taylor and Weller at retail in the stores, instead of searching on the secondary market, “and saying 250 for a Taylor Rye, oh hell no.”
Add North Carolina to the list.
Checked with a Friend in Texas where Liquor Stores are Privately Owned. He said all is fine there.
Might be time for some home brew...
A thread dedicated to shortages popping up around us might be enlightening. I don’t know how widespread it is but in my industry we’re just weeks away from being totally idled by shortages of the template material and glue we use. A big company like 3M can’t get raw material ( their words) to make the stuff. When we run out that’s it. 3M said maybe by April etc…
…jingle jingle…
This sounds like the chicken wing shortage BS from months ago.
Heading over to Lowe's today to buy some lead-based solder to repair my granddad's still. Gotta keep it original.
Liquor shortage? CW II is right around the corner.
Baloney. “limited to two bottles a day” is not booze shortage, unless you’re a raging alcoholic with expensive tastes.
Total Wine here in AZ is bursting at the seams with wine, beer and distilled spirits.
In fact I saw a new blended scotch option I hadn’t seen before with ridiculously low prices (<$20/bottle) for “mild & smooth”, “smooth” and “smoky” (lowland, highland, speyside).
I meant to look at the Pinot Gris offerings but per usual got distracted — Nikasi Tricerahops Double IPA — Awesome!
No shortages here. It’s a government induced problem, as usual.
WOW !!! Nice piece of History passed down to You. Thank You for sharing it.
Don’t forget the Flux Paste.
The battle cry can be adapted from President Polk’s famous battle cry of 1844: “Fifty-four/forty or fight!” Just need to drop “fifty-four” and add “ouncer” after “forty”.
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