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A Trade War Poured Neat: Trump's 50% Tariff on Canadian Whisky Changes the Game The U.S.-Canada spirits trade, once a model of continental cooperation, has entered its most turbulent chapter yet. The Trump administration announced that a 50 percent tariff on Canadian goods — including whisky, wine

Old Forester's Triple Char Is More Than a New Bourbon — It's Proof That Main Street Has Arrived When Old Forester announced the newest entry in its 117 Series on July 24, 2026, the press release carried two distinct pieces of news bundled into a single bottle. The first was right there in the name

Pennsylvania Senate Passes Bill to Make Rye Whiskey the Official State Spirit, Reclaiming the Commonwealth's Forgotten Whiskey Crown For most American whiskey drinkers, the story begins in Kentucky. Bourbon country. White oak barrels stacked in rickhouses on rolling bluegrass hills, limestone-filt

The Hunt Is On: Inside the Growing Search for America's Best Hotel Whiskey Bars Something is shifting in American hospitality, and the clearest proof of it is not found in renovation budgets or room rate trends — it is found at the bar. Specifically, in the increasingly serious, deliberately curat

Scotch Whisky Gets Its Moment: The US Tariff Removal That Changes Everything For more than a year, the Scotch whisky industry watched one of its most important commercial relationships deteriorate in real time. American importers absorbed cost shocks. Scottish distillers saw order volumes shrink.

The Bourbon Bubble Has Burst — and Newport's New Riff Is Ready for It The good times in bourbon were never going to last forever. For roughly two decades, American whiskey producers rode one of the most extraordinary consumer booms the spirits industry had ever seen — a gold rush that filled rickh

The World's Most Remote Whisky Warehouse: Scientists Begin Formal Analysis of Antarctica-Matured Isla Marambio Whisky has been aged in cold stone warehouses in the Scottish Highlands, sun-baked rickhouses in Kentucky, and high-altitude distilleries in the Himalayas. But nothing in the 500-year his

The Great Scotch Reckoning: How an Industry Built on Scarcity and Prestige Is Learning to Price Itself Back Into Reality There is a particular kind of hubris that thrives in industries where the product takes decades to mature. Scotch whisky, more than almost any other category, has operated for t

Scotch Whisky Makes History in Argentina With Landmark Geographical Indication — And Now It's Turning One For decades, anyone wandering the aisles of a Buenos Aires liquor store could find bottles that traded freely on the cachet of Scotland without bearing much legal obligation to actually be fro

From the Parking Lot to the Bottle: How Blue Lot® Bourbon Became West Virginia's Own There is a particular kind of authenticity that cannot be manufactured by a marketing team or conjured in a boardroom — the kind that comes from years of shared experience, from Saturday afternoons spent in the co