NPR wisely consulted the bourbon experts for an All Things Considered segment on the watering down of Maker’s Mark, specifically, LEO Weekly managing editor/arts editor Sara Havens, who writes the “Bar Belle” column for Louisville’s alt-weekly.

“It’s gotten … a lot of outrage,” she tells WFPL:

Havens says she’ll still drink Maker’s Mark, but probably less often. “[When] you go to a bar and you know one drink is watered down and the other drink is potent, you always go to the potent one,” she says.