A cocktail revival can increase whiskey demand much faster than producers can create mature inventory, so menus, allocations, substitutions, age statements, and sourced stock may change before production catches up.
Meehan provides bar-side evidence and a reported rye shortage, but production and sales data are needed to quantify the mechanism.
American whiskey has a delayed supply response. Meehan links classic-cocktail demand to brown-spirit revival, age-statement pressure, rye allocations, and substitution, making bar programs part of the demand history rather than merely an after-market use.
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Atomic idea
A cocktail revival can increase whiskey demand much faster than producers can create mature inventory, so menus, allocations, substitutions, age statements, and sourced stock may change before production catches up.
Reasoning
American whiskey has a delayed supply response. Meehan links classic-cocktail demand to brown-spirit revival, age-statement pressure, rye allocations, and substitution, making bar programs part of the demand history rather than merely an after-market use.
Boundary and counterpoint
Meehan provides bar-side evidence and a reported rye shortage, but production and sales data are needed to quantify the mechanism.
Provenance
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