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Jack Daniel's Brings Its American Single Malt Home — And It's About Time For more than a century and a half, the Jack Daniel Distillery has done things one way: corn-forward mash bill, iron-free cave spring water, and the Lincoln County Process — that slow, deliberate drip through ten feet of suga

An Official Category, an Uncertain Road: Where American Single Malt Stands Now When the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau published its final rule on December 18, 2024, American single malt whiskey became something it had never legally been before: a recognized, defined, protected category

From a Bennington Garage to a Revolutionary Whiskey: Village Garage Distillery's Vermont Republic Rye There is a particular kind of ambition that grows quietly in small towns — the kind that takes years to mature, requires patience most people aren't willing to commit, and ends up saying something

American Whiskey Is Caught in the Crossfire of a Collapsing U.S.-Canada Trade War For the better part of two years, the American whiskey industry has watched its most important northern export market evaporate one government liquor store shelf at a time. Now, with 50% tariffs officially in force a

A $75 Bourbon Nobody Had Heard of Just Dethroned Some of the Most Coveted Whiskeys in America There is a particular kind of satisfaction reserved for moments when the label is hidden and the liquid has to speak entirely for itself. No secondary market markup, no allocated mystique, no word-of-mout

American Whiskey Wants to Be the World's Whiskey. The Tariff Wars Have Other Ideas. There is a boldness to the mission statement of the American Whiskey Association that could easily read as naïve given the current global trade climate. The organization, founded in 2025 by some of the most powerfu

Sagamore Whiskey Takes Its Bottled in Bond Rye National — and the Timing Couldn't Be Better Eight years is a long time to wait. It's long enough to watch a child go from kindergarten to middle school, long enough to see trends rise and fall in the whiskey world, and, as Sagamore Whiskey would have

Where Kentucky Bourbon Meets a Scottish Castle: The Complete Guide to Castle & Key Distillery There are distilleries, and then there is Castle & Key. Pull off McCracken Pike outside of Frankfort, Kentucky, and what greets you is nothing short of jarring — a limestone castle rising from the

Brown-Forman's Whiskey Flat, But RTDs Are Exploding: What the Numbers Mean for the Bourbon Industry The latest earnings report from Brown-Forman — the Louisville-based spirits giant behind Jack Daniel's, Woodford Reserve, and Old Forester — paints a picture of an American whiskey business in trans

Basil Hayden Cognac Cask Reserve: Kentucky Bourbon Meets the French Countryside There are releases that arrive with the subtlety of a footnote, and there are releases that demand your full attention. Basil Hayden's new Cognac Cask Reserve — announced out of Clermont, Kentucky on September 2, 2026