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If you make an aged oak spirit in the UK, it would be a corn whiskey, that exact same spirit in the USA would be Bourbon.
Thank you for the being the stereotypical ignorant American who thinks bourbon is unique.
A concurrent resolution adopted by the United States Congress in 1964 declared bourbon to be a “distinctive product of the United States” and asked “the appropriate agencies of the United States Government … [to] take appropriate action to prohibit importation into the United States of whiskey designated as ‘Bourbon Whiskey’.”[26][27] A U.S. federal regulation now restricts the definition of bourbon for whiskey to only include spirits produced in the U.S.[28]
That’s it, it’s literally a USA ego thing.
Also, scotch is a terrible example, that’s another unique one, it’s made in Scotland only…. You really don’t know your whiskey history at all do you?
That’s because Scotland isn’t making it part of their identity like USA did dude….
Also, the USA has their own bullshit version, single malt whiskey. Of course they would try and copy while refusing to let others -.-