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Thomas Bard

Sep 23, 2026

40:32
They're not trying to compete with Buffalo Trace or Maker's Mark.
40:35
right and that's that's one thing we always try to educate people on is that even though we work in the same industry uh you're still it's kind of apples and oranges when you start looking at that because our capabilities our our ability to make a global amount uh we're just not that big we are like you said a mom and pop we're just small business uh and when we go to i go to washington dc uh quite often uh lobbying for some federal uh regulation relief on this industry And one thing that we're always educating is that we're just small business.
41:07
We're a different type because we have a lot of regulation that has been around since prohibition.
41:14
And those federal and state laws were created when there were no small distilleries.
41:19
Craft distilleries have only been around for about 20 years or so.
41:22
So we're fairly new.
41:23
Now there's over 2,000 of us.
42:49
There are so many other people who are affected by this industry, right?

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