Styleforum › Forums › Lifestyle › Social Life, Food & Drink, Travel › Top Selling Liquors in Montana
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Top Selling Liquors in Montana

post #1 of 29
3/6/10 at 1:37am
Thread Starter 
No clue why I am poasting this. Other than, I've never heard of half of these. WTF is Black Velvet? Why's it selling 2.5-3 times as much as Jack Daniels Black/twice as much as Captain Morgan?

This is by 'cases sold', btw.

Quote:
Top sellers

The following are the top 10 liquors in Montana during 2009 and cases sold.

1. Black Velvet, 44,287

2. Nikolai Vodka, 34,195

3. Captain Morgan Rum, 22,903

4. Crown Royal, 19,713

5. Jack Daniels Black Label, 17,996

6. McCormick Vodka, 16,921

7. Canadian R&R, 14,935

8. Bacardi Light Rum, 14,205

9. Jose Cuervo, 14,185

10. Jagermeister, 13,791
Reply
Reply
post #2 of 29
3/6/10 at 1:39am
I once wanted to build an estate in the rolling foothills of Montana. But these liquor choices depress me. Evan Williams, the best value whiskey made in America, is not even top 10?!
Reply
Reply
post #3 of 29
3/6/10 at 1:40am
Black Velvet is a mid-lower level Canadian whisky.
Reply
Reply
post #4 of 29
3/6/10 at 1:42am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Piobaire View Post
Black Velvet is a mid-lower level Canadian whisky.
Montanans are un-American.
Reply
Reply
post #5 of 29
3/6/10 at 1:45am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Connemara View Post
Montanans are un-American.

They like their Canadian whisky there. Three of the top ten selling spirits? And that R&R? We used to say it stood for "Royal Rotgut."
Reply
Reply
post #6 of 29
3/6/10 at 1:46am
Ugh, you monarchist half-huns make sick! Onward my Celtic brothers! 'Twas Britannia bade our Wild Geese go that small nations might be free But their lonely graves are by Sulva's waves or the shore of the Great North Sea Oh, had they died by Pearse's side or fought with Cathal Brugha Their names we will keep where the fenians sleep 'neath the shroud of the foggy dew
Reply
Reply
post #7 of 29
3/6/10 at 2:04am
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Piobaire View Post
They like their Canadian whisky there. Three of the top ten selling spirits? And that R&R? We used to say it stood for "Royal Rotgut."

I'm glad you brought that up. I had never heard of the R&R but didn't want to show my ignorance.
Reply
Reply
post #8 of 29
3/6/10 at 2:04am
Yeah, wtf is R&R? never heard of it.
Reply
Reply
post #9 of 29
3/6/10 at 1:43pm
The only thin on that list and in my bar is Crown Royal.
Reply
Reply
post #10 of 29
3/6/10 at 1:53pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Connemara View Post
I once wanted to build an estate in the rolling foothills of Montana. But these liquor choices depress me. Evan Williams, the best value whiskey made in America, is not even top 10?!

a man after my own heart
Reply
Reply
post #11 of 29
3/6/10 at 4:42pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Connemara View Post
Yeah, wtf is R&R? never heard of it.

Left-most bottle on this wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CanadianWhisky.JPG


Conne, have you tried Evan Williams 1783? Much better than Black IMO, while costing maybe a couple of bucks more.
Reply
Reply
post #12 of 29
3/6/10 at 9:06pm
Nikolai Vodka is #2? I remember drinking that shit when I was 14 and thinking it tasted like rubbing alcohol. It was the only thing I could afford with a $10/wk allowance.
Reply
Reply
post #13 of 29
3/6/10 at 9:35pm
About half of those labels have been inland Pacific Northwest staples for 30 years. All but the vodka, actually: replace them with Smirnov and nothing would have changed.
Reply
Reply
post #14 of 29
3/6/10 at 10:16pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by james_timothy View Post
About half of those labels have been inland Pacific Northwest staples for 30 years.

All but the vodka, actually: replace them with Smirnov and nothing would have changed.

Surprised that Smiroff isn't on the list...
Reply
Reply
post #15 of 29
3/7/10 at 10:25am
Quote:
Originally Posted by crazyquik View Post
WTF is Black Velvet?
There's a scene in Bumfights in which a homeless gentleman pulls out one of his own teeth with a pair of pliers in exchange for a pint of Black Velvet.
Quote:
Originally Posted by crazyquik View Post
Why's it selling 2.5-3 times as much as Jack Daniels Black/twice as much as Captain Morgan?
Black Velvet = ~10 (American) dollars for a half gallon vs Jack Daniels = ~15 bucks for a fifth. Also, Montana is a hotbed of alcoholism. And a large, non-PC (for lack of a better term) factor is the number of reservations and Native Americans.
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
Styleforum › Forums › Lifestyle › Social Life, Food & Drink, Travel › Top Selling Liquors in Montana