Veteran Distiller PROVES: The Bourbon Boom Is Over
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Published Oct 15, 2026, 10:00 PM · 10h ago
Wade Cooper
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Your regular bottle came down 3 dollars, and the bottle that used to sit behind the locked glass is out on the open shelf. Something in that picture does not add up, and nobody in the store is going to tell you why.
Here are six pieces of proof that the bourbon boom in this country is over, counted down from six to one, and every one of them is something you can check yourself: a number in a public report, a price, a plant that went dark. Number one is not a number at all. It is a sound.
I spent 34 years in this industry, making bourbon, running warehouses and working the filling floor, and most of this proof comes from the back of the building, where I worked. Then I come back to your 31.99 and show you why your bottle has not moved yet, when it will, and the one thing not to do with your money this winter. No brand paid for this video or sent me a bottle.
Your homework, this Saturday: walk past the glass case by the register, read the price on your regular bottle, pick up one bottle with a sale tag and read the back label. Then tell me in the comments what town you are in and what your regular bottle cost on the shelf this week.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Your regular bottle, and the one out of the glass case
00:55 – Why nobody told you
01:22 – Ten years of "there is not enough"
02:06 – Six pieces of proof, counted down
02:39 – Who I am
02:57 – A boom is a four-year bet
03:44 – The warehouse boss, and the sound
04:36 – Number six: the count stopped going up
05:40 – Number five: the top of the market is coming down
06:54 – Number four: the second-best customer walked out
08:09 – Why did my bottle only come down 3 dollars?
08:35 – Number three: the cooperage
10:07 – Number two: a barrel is not money anymore
12:01 – Number one: the sound stopped
13:22 – Back to your 31.99: the barrels turn four
15:39 – The honest limits
17:24 – The math, plain
18:36 – Ten years in the warehouses
19:04 – Your homework for Saturday
20:33 – Next time, and tell me your town
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Details
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026, 10:00 PM
- Length
- 21:50 (1,310 s)
- Format
- Long-form
- Category
- Entertainment
- Audio language
- EN-US
- Quality
- HD
- Captions
- No
- Made for kids
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- Licensed content
- Yes
- Video ID
- fPcWsKG_Ock
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