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Lee Greenwood Revives Soldier Valley Spirits for America's 250th Birthday — And It's More Than Just Whiskey There are celebrity spirits, and then there are spirits born out of something deeper — a decades-long commitment to the men and women who serve this country, a veteran-run distillery that go

Caskd Wants to Change How Collectors Buy and Sell Rare Whisky — Starting With a 1981 Single Malt The rare whisky market has long operated like a members-only club with no posted rules and no price list on the door. Dealers set terms, auction houses clip fat commissions, and private collectors tryi

Scotland's Scotch Whisky Industry Stares Down a Road to Nowhere The dram in your glass traveled a long way to reach you — not just in years of maturation, but in actual miles of Scottish road, often crumbling single-lane carriageways threading through the Highlands between some of the world's most

A Dream Project at The Kentucky Castle Is Now Mired in Debt and Litigation When Wes Henderson sold Angel's Envy to Bacardi in 2015, it capped one of the most celebrated entrepreneurial runs in modern bourbon history. The brand he built alongside his father, the late master distiller Lincoln Hender

Cleveland Whiskey Acquires Seekers Bourbon from Everwild Spirits in a Bold Ohio-to-Ohio Deal Two of Ohio's most closely watched craft whiskey operations have struck a deal that quietly reshuffles the state's artisan spirits landscape. Cleveland Whiskey — the technology-forward distillery that has

From Fireball to Ol' Crimson: How Washington State Is Using Alcohol to Fund Its NIL Revolution Somewhere between Pullman's wheat fields and Seattle's Pike Place waterfront, Washington State University's scrappy NIL infrastructure has quietly pulled off one of college football's more creative fundr

American Whisky Drinkers Don't Trust the Supply Chain to Pass Along Tariff Savings The announcement was supposed to be good news. When President Trump confirmed on April 30, 2026, that the 10% tariff on UK whisky imports would be scrapped — a decision framed in the glow of a high-profile state vis

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,