BrokeAssAggie said:

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jh0400 said:

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I stopped by three Specs and one TW in Houston today and struck out four times.

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jh0400 said:

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I stopped by three Specs and one TW in Houston today and struck out four times.

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betadawg1 said:

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jh0400 said:

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I stopped by three Specs and one TW in Houston today and struck out four times.

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The Specs on Jones Rd had t least 4 last night. If you don't have any luck in the near future I can mule you one from CS.

Apparently Chartreuse is one of the rare items that TW doesn't carry, per an employee.

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G Martin 87 said:

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Going to infuse some reposado with cinnamon and candied jalapeños right now.

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jh0400 said:

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So my wife has decided she really likes Last Words. Unfortunately for me, green chartreuse is harder to get than Blanton's.

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Four months ago, Joshua Lutz started scouring the country for Chartreuse, the bright-green herbal liqueur based on a secret recipe of 130 botanicals and produced in the French Alps by the Carthusian order of monks for more than two centuries. Mr. Lutz, a health care technology professional based in Huntington Woods, Mich., has loved the liqueur for more than 20 years long before it became a stalwart on cocktail lists across the country.

"It used to be something you could rely on being available, so I never really paid much attention to it," he said. But Mr. Lutz's local liquor store has been sold out for the past year, so he has taken matters into his own hands. Now, when he travels for work, he takes a shipping box with him. "Recent times have forced me into hoarding a little bit," he said.

The shortage isn't limited to Mr. Lutz's liquor store.

While supplies of some wines and other spirits have dwindled because of a glass shortage and shipping delays, Chartreuse both the green variety and its mellower yellow sibling has become scarce because the Carthusians have declined to increase production to match rising demand.

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In 2020, as the pandemic turned many people into at-home mixologists, sales of Chartreuse in the United States doubled, a pattern that held true worldwide, according to Chartreuse Diffusion. Global sales topped $30 million in 2022.

This rise in popularity directly conflicted with a collective decision that the monks quietly made in 2019 to cap production of their ingredient-intensive spirit in order to limit the environmental impact and to focus on their "primary goal" of solitude and prayer, as explained in a letter released in January.

"There's only so much Chartreuse you can make without ruining the balance of monastic life," said the Rev. Michael K. Holleran, a former monk who oversaw Chartreuse production from 1986 to 1990.

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