For years, guys who love a good whiskey have been chasing the next big thing—something that feels familiar in the glass but surprises the hell out of you on the first sip. Turns out a small outfit up in the Colorado mountains might have just dropped exactly that. Hoot + Howl Spirits, a craft di

Every year, right after Thanksgiving, a quiet line starts forming outside a little distillery tasting room in Bend, Oregon. Guys in Carhartt jackets, a few with gray beards and ball caps pulled low, stand around sipping coffee from thermoses, talking about hunting season and how the snow level look

Thanksgiving usually means the same old thing: turkey, football, and relatives arguing about politics at the table. But this year, something completely different showed up on a lot of guys’ feeds – a bunch of retired grandpas and some loud twenty-something influencers getting absolutely smashed on

For more than two decades, John Campbell was the steady hand behind one of Scotland’s most famous names in whisky. As the only Islay native ever to serve as distillery manager at Laphroaig, he spent years coaxing that unmistakable iodine-and-campfire smoke out of peat-fired kilns on a windswept Sco

For years, the folks at Bird Dog Whiskey have owned the flavored-whiskey world. They kicked the whole category off back in 2010 and went on to rack up more awards than any other flavored brand on the planet. Peach, Blackberry, Apple, Chocolate—you name it, they made it taste good and made it win me

Every man who enjoys a good pour knows the quiet disappointment of reaching for the bottle during a long evening with friends and realizing it’s already running low. Chattanooga Whiskey just fixed that problem. The Tennessee distillery rolled out its flagship Chattanooga Whiskey 91 in a honest-to-g

Every December, the same problem hits a lot of guys: you’ve got a brother-in-law who already owns every tool known to man, a boss who pretends he doesn’t want anything, and a fishing buddy who swears he’s happy with a six-pack. Then you remember the one thing they never turn down—a really good bott

Deep in the rolling hills of southern Indiana, just a stone’s throw from the Kentucky line, a little outfit called Starlight Distillery just pulled off something most people thought was impossible. They took a bourbon finished in rare Japanese Mizunara oak, priced it at around 150 bucks, and walked

Deep in Kentucky horse country, a small father-and-son operation just knocked the socks off the entire spirits world. When the International Wine and Spirits Competition dropped its 2025 Top 50 Spirits Producers list, 15 STARS came in as the number-one craft bourbon maker in the country, third-best

Riley Green has never been the kind of guy who just sings about the country life – he lives it. From the duck blinds of Alabama at 4 a.m. to the stages of sold-out arenas, the man bleeds camo and honky-tonk in equal measure. So when word got out that the platinum-selling, four-time CMA winner was p