• SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    With brands you know for years, you know what you’re getting. Some folks probably don’t want to test new ones. Maybe we should provide substitution proposals.

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      Honestly I find most liquors are easy enough to substitute for the average drinker.

      Yeah if you’re some kind o whiskey connoisseur that drops hundreds or even thousands on bottles there’s maybe a difference. But for the average sub $100 you’ll easily find a substitute just moving within a similar price point

      Depending on the person beer can be a bit harder, but not impossible by any means

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        2 days ago

        Maybe I’m not the right person to have started the conversation I guess. I’ve got a 500€ bottle of single barrel Scotch here, and a lot of her lesser sisters. This rhymes to a less insane degree with gin, rum, tequila and various European fruit distillations. Then there’s the wine, and since I’ve been friend-dopted by my best vineyard owners, this game has improved a lot as well.

        I do enjoy stuff like this, and it’s quite a journey to find what you’re into.

        For a mixer I wouldn’t go into so much detail, of course.

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          1 day ago

          Two things.

          Americans don’t produce anything as good as a single malt scotch.

          Scotland would never spontaneously shred their international reputation the way America has, so international scotch sales will be safe in perpetuity.

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            15 hours ago

            We absolutely do make competitors that rival Scottish single malt, we just don’t copy them. I understand it’s fashionable to shit on everything American but you would do well to avoid sinking into outright bigotry

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              11 hours ago

              You make nothing that rivals Scottish single malt.

              You would do well to avoid tone policing. concentrate more on domestic sales, to compensate for the international sales that you’re never getting back.