{"id":60292,"date":"2025-12-22T21:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=60292"},"modified":"2025-12-22T21:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:19:11","slug":"jim-beam-to-pause-production-at-its-main-distillery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/12\/22\/jim-beam-to-pause-production-at-its-main-distillery\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Beam to pause production at its main distillery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bourbon maker Jim Beam is halting production at one of its distilleries in Kentucky for at least a year as the whiskey industry navigates tariffs from the Trump administration and slumping demand for a product that needs years of aging before it is ready.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"a68676\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/download-21.webp?resize=299%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60293 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #a68676; aspect-ratio:1.779834434006139;width:488px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jim Beam said the decision to pause&nbsp;bourbon making&nbsp;at its Clermont location in 2026 will give the company time to invest in improvements at the distillery. The bottling and warehouse at the site will remain open, along with the James B. Beam Distilling Co. visitor\u2019s center and restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company\u2019s larger distillery in Boston, Kentucky, will continue to operate, the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are always assessing production levels to best meet consumer demand,\u201d the company said in a statement that added they were talking with the distillery\u2019s union to determine whether there will be layoffs or other reductions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bourbon makers have&nbsp;to gamble&nbsp;well into the future. Jim Beam\u2019s flagship bourbon requires at least four years of aging in barrels before being bottled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whiskey makers are dealing with back-and-forth arguments over tariffs in Europe and&nbsp;in Canada, where a boycott started after the Trump administration suggested annexing the country into the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/american-distilled-spirits-canada-european-union-16a218e4eb68f7e8b53a977d69c4db85\">Overall exports<\/a>&nbsp;of American spirits fell 9% in the second quarter of 2025 compared to a year ago, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. The most dramatic decrease came in U.S. spirits exports to Canada, which fell 85% in the April-through-June quarter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bourbon production has&nbsp;grown significantly in recent years. As of January, there were about 16 million barrels of bourbon aging in Kentucky warehouses \u2014 more than triple the amount held 15 years ago, according to the Kentucky Distillers\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But sales figures and polling show Americans are&nbsp;drinking less&nbsp;than they have in decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 95% of all bourbon made in the U.S. comes&nbsp;from Kentucky. The trade group estimated the industry brings more than 23,000 jobs and $2.2 billion to the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bourbon maker Jim Beam is halting production at one of its distilleries in Kentucky for at least a year as the whiskey industry navigates tariffs from the Trump administration and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"17","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMTJcL2Rvd25sb2FkLTIxLndlYnA_Zml0PTI5OSUyQzE2OCZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6IkppbSBCZWFtIHRvIHBhdXNlIHByb2R1Y3Rpb24gYXQgaXRzIG1haW4gZGlzdGlsbGVyeSIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiaGlnaHdheSIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.b8lzBp_LcmmaDNlTsF-s_IO0ZFYHTlW0UDq6DgjclqYMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":60293,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/download-21.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[12989],"class_list":["post-60292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-jim-beam-to-pause-production-at-its-main-distillery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60294,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60292\/revisions\/60294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}