It’s time to get all warm and fuzzy on people with some thoughts on charitable giving within our community, that’s the whiskey community.

Thoughts about how the Bourbon community gives and charitable causes came to mind last night. On one of the social media whiskey websites a dog was badly abused and left outside. The pictures posted by the shelter were really a sad sight to see. Donations were solicited on this whiskey social media site. Quickly within 24 hours $1000 dollars was raised toward the dogs medical treatment and care. This is nothing new considering floods, storms fires, sick people in the business that were injured and needed some relief from our community always there to give.

Recently during the event for Jim Rutledge’s 50th anniversary over $28,000 was raised for the Crohn’s foundation. It’s interesting because some of the biggest names in whiskey are always there like Heaven Hill when other people like the with famous names and booze never seem to pop up. More interesting these cheapo’s are the very people that complain the most about social media secondary market when nothing is done about worse things happening within the normal distribution channels. They make the most noise but no obvious effort whatsoever when a retailer charges $2000 for a $300 bottle. And don’t let them fool you when they tell you they don’t have control, they have total control over distribution who get things ~therefore they have control over everything else, including their own generosity.

The very people this crew bashes that do sell bottles on the secondary market are just as quick to reach into their pocket to give and give whenever someone is in need. People never really give credit to this nor has anybody in the mainstream or whiskey media brings up just how generous the community is as a whole.

So for this time of year I’ll just ask that anybody that was thinking about buying a bottle in the next couple months for themselves, take that same amount of money and put it toward a worthy charity. They can use it a lot more than we can use a few more drinks. Happy Holidays