It's as American as apple pie and t...

It's as American as apple pie and the Fourth of July if it were not that the last two decades of the 20th hundred years have not been especially kind to bourbon, America's native spirit. by means of 1997, total consumption had dropp to fewer than 13 million 9-liter cases, les than half the category's total in 1980 Since that time, sales of bourbon and other straight American whiskies have been relatively stable, hovering between 13 million and 132 million cases annually. In 2002 according to Adams Liquor Handbook 2003 total consumption was 131 million cases, an increase of about 65000 cases from one side of to the other the previous year. ...