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Kansas City has made itself known across the American sporting world through championship football, big-league baseball, and a homegrown food and drink culture that punches well above its weight. Now, in the summer of 2026, the city steps into an even larger arena — hosting matches for the FIFA Wor

The End of a Brief Tenure: How Søren Hagh's Sudden Exit Exposed Deep Cracks at William Grant & Sons On the last day of October 2025, William Grant & Sons — the 139-year-old Scottish distilling dynasty behind some of the world's most celebrated whiskies — quietly filed a routine document wi

Dierks Bentley Takes His ROW 94 Whiskey Hologram to Nashville's BNA — and Changes How Bourbon Gets Marketed in Airports Most bourbon brands settle for a shelf placement and a paper shelf talker. Dierks Bentley has other ideas. The multi-platinum country superstar and founder of ROW 94 Whiskey is n

Garrison Brothers Is Growing Fast — and It's Not an Accident Something significant is happening in the Texas Hill Country, and its effects are being felt in liquor stores, hotel bars, and sports venues from coast to coast. Garrison Brothers Distillery, the first legal whiskey distillery in Texas,

Atlanta's Two Worlds Collide: Dragon Con and Old Fourth Distillery Launch an Annual Bourbon Series There are partnerships that make obvious sense from the jump — a brewery sponsoring a beer festival, a tequila brand backing a Cinco de Mayo block party. And then there are the collaborations that, o

Old Forester President's Choice Goes National: America's Most Storied Distillery Just Changed the Rules For the better part of seven years, the only way to get your hands on a bottle of Old Forester President's Choice was to make a pilgrimage. You had to show up, in person, at the distillery on Lo

A $10,000 Bottle of Charity: Cincinnati's Giving Voice Foundation Returns With Its Third Annual Rare Bourbon Raffle There are bourbon raffles, and then there are moments that make even the most jaded whiskey collector stop scrolling and pay close attention. The Giving Voice Foundation's third ann

Shankar Distillers Drops Varchas 250th Anniversary Edition Bourbon, Putting Michigan Craft Whiskey Front and Center for America's Semiquincentennial There are not many moments in history when a nation pauses to take stock of 250 years of itself — of everything it has built, lost, fought for, and d

Nevada's High Desert Just Produced the Oldest Craft Bourbon Ever Aged in the Silver State There is a particular kind of credibility that can only be earned with time. You cannot shortcut it, cannot fabricate it, and certainly cannot buy it off a sourcing broker. In the American craft whiskey world

WhistlePig's Summer 2026 Lineup Is the Most Ambitious the Vermont Distillery Has Ever Assembled Father's Day falls once a year. America's 250th birthday comes around exactly once. WhistlePig, the Shoreham, Vermont rye powerhouse that spent the better part of two decades turning skeptics into devot