{"id":20451,"date":"2025-08-24T15:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/20451\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T15:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:35:17","slug":"whiskey-on-the-rocks-backers-fear-the-liquid-gold-bubble-has-burst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/20451\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey on the rocks: Backers fear the \u2018liquid gold\u2019 bubble has burst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Irish whiskey has taken millions in recent years from investors. With an industry slowdown in full swing, many are starting to panic. Despite the pain, distillery owners believe opportunity abounds<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Irish whiskey faces changing times, especially in the US market. Stock image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/38943f5d-6246-4b4a-ad6f-1dc61a72c73e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Irish whiskey faces changing times, especially in the US market. Stock image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Investors in Irish whiskey distilleries are panicking as the global slowdown in alcohol continues to hammer the industry, with some of the most promising producers recently shutting up shop. However, despite investor worries, distillery owners remain upbeat that the sector will recover as it looks to secure a zero-for-zero tariff on spirits with the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Millions have been piled into Ireland\u2019s new distilleries in recent years by investors, foreign funds and banks in the belief that whiskey would never depreciate and, buoyed by US demand, was effectively liquid gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish whiskey has taken millions in recent years from investors. With an industry slowdown in full swing, many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,1265],"class_list":{"0":"post-20451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sean-pollock"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}