Every fall, something special happens in Louisville that pulls together two things most guys love: hard-to-find whiskey and a rock-solid reason to open the wallet. Kroger just kicked off its fifth annual Ultimate Bourbon Auction on November 12th, and this year the lineup is stacked deeper than ever

Every fall, something special happens in a little Wyoming town most folks have never heard of. Out in Kirby, population barely 72, the guys at Wyoming Whiskey crack open the warehouse doors and roll out the next bottle in their National Parks series. This year, the fifth one, they’re calling it Nat

For a lot of guys who’ve been around the block a few times, thirty years feels like a lifetime. It’s long enough to raise kids, build a career, maybe even retire and start wondering what comes next. So when a bourbon has sat in a barrel for three full decades, quietly doing its thing in the rickhou

For years, the big names in bourbon and rye have battled it out on store shelves and in export markets. Brown-Forman, Diageo, Pernod Ricard, Sazerac, Campari, Suntory—they’ve all been in the ring. But something was missing. The guys who actually make the barrels, the white oak hearts that turn raw

For a lot of guys who’ve been chasing whiskey for the last twenty or thirty years, the name Willett carries serious weight. It’s one of those distilleries that never needed flashy marketing—just rock-solid liquid in the bottle and a family story that feels honest. So when word got out that Willett

In the world of American whiskey, few names carry the weight that Barrell Craft Spirits does among serious drinkers. Since 2013, the Louisville-based outfit has built its reputation on one simple idea: find outstanding barrels from different distilleries, blend them with skill and zero shortcuts, a

For the first time in over a hundred years, you’ll soon be able to walk into a liquor store anywhere in the United States and buy a three-liter bottle of Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 – the same black-label Tennessee whiskey millions of guys have been pouring since they were old enough to shave. That’s r

Deep in the heart of Texas, something big is happening for whiskey lovers. B.R. Distilling Company – the folks behind Blue Note Bourbon – just shook hands with Ben E. Keith Beverages to bring their Memphis-made whiskey to every corner of the Lone Star State. For anyone who enjoys a good pour after

Walk into Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport these days and something feels different at Gate E28. Past the usual parade of fast-food chains and overpriced coffee stands sits a handsome new bar and restaurant that smells like pecan wood, brown sugar, and honest-to-God whiskey. It’s ca

Deep in the heart of Kentucky horse country, a distillery just rewrote the record books without much fanfare. Town Branch Distillery in Lexington quietly dropped fifty-seven bottles of something no one has ever seen before: a 16-year-old Bottled-in-Bond Kentucky Single Malt Whiskey. That’s a mouthf