I shouldn’t have these whiskeys.
That’s not to say I regret buying them, nor that I am unworthy of the privilege of their enjoyment. Rather, there is a prevailing school of thought that the conditions which brought them into my possession should not have occurred in the current environment of frenzied whiskey demand.
Let’s back up a second…
Much has been said and written about the last two decades’ transformation of the American whiskey landscape. Though most consumers started the millennium with an apathetic indifference to our indigenous brown spirit, the resurgence of whiskey’s popularity has proceeded basically without interruption for 20 years. Events that might have derailed demand for other products – such as a global financial crisis – didn’t seem to dent the desire for more whiskey.