Jim Beam Pauses Production

Monday, December 22, 2025

Popular Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam plans to pause production at its main distillery on January 1, according to the James B. Beam Distilling Co. The decision comes as Kentucky faces an increasing supply of aging barrels and uncertainty over President Donald Trump's trade wars.

Posted by redial at 12:32 PM | 24 COMMENTS | permalink

Jim Beam Whiskey will shut its distillery for 2026 thanks to plummeting sales amid retaliatory tariffs from the European Union after Trump's tariffs and a bourbon boycott from Canada. www.kentucky.com/news/busines ...

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-- Eric Michael Garcia (@ericmgarcia.bsky.social) Dec 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM

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For relaxing times, make it Suntory time.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-22 12:38 AM

KEY ECONOMIC METRICS MOVING THE RIGHT WAY..
" Inflation Has Cooled..
As of November 2025, headline inflation was 2.7% year-over-year, down from much higher levels in prior years ... though data gaps from the government shutdown complicate exact month-by-month comparisons ... . it is still trending down. Which is a good sign.
" Federal Deficit Has Decreased..
The U.S. federal budget deficit for fiscal year 2025 was about $1.775 trillion, down roughly $41 billion ...
As a share of GDP, the deficit dropped from 6.3% to 5.9%.
These are the first annual deficit reductions since 2022 ... due to Trump's tariffs.
' Prescription Drug Prices Are Coming Down..
In December 2025, the Trump administration and nine major drugmakers agreed to cut prices by up to 70% on key medicines and will offer discounted prices directly to consumers under a new platform ... .
Additional Medicare payment models are projected to save over $26 billion in drug costs by tying U.S. prices to international benchmarks. ..

#2 | Posted by boaz at 2025-12-22 07:32 AM

"We have always been at war with Eastasia."

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-22 07:38 AM

For relaxing times, make it Suntory time.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-22 12:38 AM | Reply

Loves me some Suntori... got a nice bottle of Toki on the shelf now.

Last night settled in for a relaxing evening sipping some Glenorange 12.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-22 07:48 AM

#2 | Posted by bozo

LOL!!!

What's the source of that fiction?

#5 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-12-22 08:20 AM

It was:
2.5% Aug 2024 under Biden.
2.4% Sept 2024 under Biden.
2.6% Oct 2024 under Biden.
2.7% Nov 2024 under Biden.
You wanna pick one month at a time data? Let's go have some fun, then!
tradingeconomics.com

The rest of that Boaz post was fiction or future hoping nonsense.

Reality is tariffs and Trump have pissed off customers and countries and Jim Beam is paying for it.

#6 | Posted by YAV at 2025-12-22 08:32 AM

So Trump is making us all miserable, but we can't even get drunk?

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 08:44 AM

#2 | Posted by boaz

This f*&^ing terard will be chirping the government talking points while everything else burns.

Meanwhile, s*&^ is so bad, cheap crappy booze maker Jim Beam is feeling the pinch...

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-22 09:12 AM

They got what they voted for.

cheap crappy booze maker Jim Beam

They are more than just Jim Beam.

They make some really good bourbons in Booker's, Old Grandad, Basil Hayden and Knob Creek.

#9 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-22 10:40 AM

Has pedo 47 blamed this on Biden yet?

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-22 12:59 PM

#10 All the time. Just like every other ----------- on the planet, nothing bad is ever their fault especially if their actions caused it.

#11 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-22 01:21 PM

In December 2025, the Trump administration and nine major drugmakers agreed to cut prices by up to 70% on key medicines and will offer discounted prices directly to consumers under a new platform ...

BOAZ: READ THE FINE PRINT.

Trump Rx

" Target Audience: It is designed for individuals to pay out-of-pocket, particularly those without insurance or those choosing not to use it.

#12 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-12-22 01:26 PM

-Meanwhile, s*&^ is so bad, cheap crappy booze maker Jim Beam is feeling the pinch...

I could put Jim Beam in almost any bottle of high end bourbon on the market today except ryes, double oak, etc......and people would swear they are drinking the finest bourbon made.

bourbon is so much about marketing, packaging, stories, etc. Some of the most expensive bourbon isn't that good.

Jim Beam is good stuff, IMO. This sucks....I might stock up....

#13 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-22 01:30 PM

@#9 ... They make some really good bourbons in Booker's, Old Grandad, Basil Hayden and Knob Creek. ...

Back when I lived in Kentucky (early 70's), there was a local bourbon distiller, Maker's Mark, that made high-quality bourbon.

A very smooth sipping bourbon.

Then in the early 1980's the brand was sold (to Seagrams?) and the quality seemed to have dropped off.

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-22 01:31 PM

Jim Beam famously became the "call" Bourbon for a design reason: The square bottles required a smaller case, so MORE cases could be loaded on the same truck. Beam wisely used that advantage to undercut other bourbon purveyors.

#15 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-22 01:35 PM

Brown-Forman owns a lot of distillers including Woodford Reserve.

We lived in Lexington 2007-2009. Toured Woodford and 4 Roses while we lived there. Ironically I wasn't really into bourbon then.....later I developed a taste for it.

#16 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-22 01:36 PM

"I could put Jim Beam in almost any bottle of high end bourbon on the market today except ryes, double oak, etc......and people would swear they are drinking the finest bourbon made."

Bull ------- ----.

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 01:37 PM

Didn't know that. Interesting

#18 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-22 01:37 PM

"Didn't know that. Interesting"

It's from back in my bartending days, decades ago. We were in the beverage manager's office, loading in liquor, and the Beam cases were markedly smaller than the other boxes. I commented on it, and that's when an old school guy (the day bartender, about 40 years older than the rest of us) informed us of the history.

#19 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-22 01:47 PM

Jim Beam is good stuff, IMO. This sucks....I might stock up....

#13 | Posted by eberly

I guess I associate it with memories of buying it because it was cheap and we were high school students trying to maximize what little cash we had.

I'm also not a big bourbon drinker so it all tastes pretty blech to me.

#20 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-22 02:46 PM

"Federal Deficit Has Decreased...The U.S. federal budget deficit for fiscal year 2025 was about $1.775 trillion, down roughly $41 billion"

Sorry, that's not how Math maths. Or English.

You can say "Federal Budget Deficit Projection has decreased"...but you can't claim the Federal Deficit has decreased, when in reality the Federal Deficit has still INCREASED.

#21 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-22 02:54 PM

This is what MAGA deems a success story. Kentucky got what they voted for!

#22 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-12-23 12:15 PM

Me thinks Boaz-0 was flat out on the P soaked sofa when one fingered out that scrawl on the IdeaPad he just got out of pawn. Probably got a trashcn full of empty Jim Beam bottles off the service porch.

The Military spends a lot of money wringing out the livers of its fodder... especially the retirees.

#23 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-12-24 01:40 AM

Don't drink it anymore, but when I did it didn't take long to figure out there was a whole world of excellent bourbon out there that left Jim Beam and Jack Daniel's in the proverbial dust. The Canadians are doing themselves a favor.

#24 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-24 06:22 AM

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