Tony Katz:
It was a Gallup Poll and it says Americans are drinking less.
Now, this has been an ongoing conversation:
You guys know I do Eat! Drink! Smoke! the Cigar and Bourbon show heard all across the country. We have been discussing this regularly. Gen Z is not a drinking generation. Between their own views of Ozempic with other generations other things, Drinking is just not what they do. It’s definitely nonalcoholic. Is where they’re at bars that just do mocktails, nonalcoholic beers like Athletic. It’s been a thing in the bourbon industry is feeling it in a large, large way. That doesn’t mean that it’s all going away. There are still local distilleries that are still major distillers. And me, I’m still a huge fan of the art. Julian Jones joins me now from west Fork Whiskey in Westf