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Missouri Bourbon Has Earned Its Own Identity — And It's About Time the Rest of America Noticed For generations, the American bourbon conversation began and ended in Kentucky. Mention bourbon at any bar, any tailgate, any hunting camp from Maine to Montana, and the assumption has always been the sa

Yellowstone Bourbon's 2026 Limited Edition Arrives Finished in Ruby and Tawny Port Casks — and It's the Brand's Most Ambitious Release Yet Every summer, bourbon hunters across the country start watching their local retailers for a single bottle with a national park on the label. The arrival of the

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 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

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

Bardstown Bourbon Company Takes Tropical Seriously: The Story Behind the Victoria Pineapple Barrel Finish There is a particular challenge embedded in the very chemistry of American whiskey that most distillers have simply learned to live with: the near-impossibility of coaxing genuine tropical fru

Luca Mariano Distillery Sold for $19.5 Million: Inside the Kentucky Bourbon Industry's Sharpest Fall from Grace A Kentucky bourbon distillery that spent years building toward a grand opening — only to collapse under the weight of tens of millions in debt just weeks after cutting the ribbon — has f

The Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame's 2026 Class Is Its Most Diverse Yet — and One Name Will Surprise You Every September, the bourbon industry gathers its legends, its lifers, and its rising voices to honor the people who have bent the arc of American whiskey history. This year, the Kentucky Distil

Nashville's Happenstance Whiskey Moves Into New Jersey With Fedway Associates There are a lot of bourbon brands chasing shelf space these days, but few doing it on the terms that Happenstance Whiskey has set for itself. Happenstance is a 100% women-owned whiskey company out of Nashville, Tennessee

Kentucky Bourbon Trail Hits 74 Stops: The Biggest Expansion Yet Reshapes America's Premier Whiskey Tourism Experience The Kentucky Bourbon Trail just got a whole lot longer. The Kentucky Distillers' Association announced this week that four new destinations have joined the legendary self-guided to