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The Tennessee Whiskey Trail Keeps Growing — And Its Newest Stops Are Worth the Drive Tennessee has long occupied a peculiar, defiant place in the American whiskey conversation. It is home to the world's most recognizable whiskey brand, has a production tradition that predates the Republic itself, an

EKU Uncorks the Colonels Bourbon Collection: Kentucky's Newest Official University Spirit Has Arrived Eastern Kentucky University has never been shy about wearing its identity on its sleeve. The Colonel mascot, the maroon and white, the shadow of the Appalachian foothills rolling behind the Richmo

From Bardstown to Your Back Bar: Wooler Brands Goes National With Award-Winning Bourbon and Vodka There is no shortage of new spirits brands flooding the American market. Walk through any liquor store in 2026 and the shelves are dense with startups, celebrity labels, and limited-edition expression

Beam's Big 2026 Swing: Booker's Goes Rye and Little Book Keeps Building Its Generational Blend Every fall, the American whiskey world braces for what James B. Beam Distilling Co. has been quietly working on behind the doors of its Clermont, Kentucky campus. This year, the answer comes in two forms

Smith & Wesson and World Whiskey Society Join Forces on a 7-Year Straight Bourbon That's Built for Collectors and Drinkers Alike Few brand combinations in recent American spirits history carry the kind of immediate cultural weight as a Smith & Wesson bourbon. Guns and whiskey have always o

Brother Justus Drops Founder's Reserve IV: Minnesota's Most Anticipated Whiskey Release Gets Even Better Four years into one of the most quietly compelling limited-release programs in American craft whiskey, Brother Justus Whiskey Company has just dropped its latest entry. The Minneapolis distille

Ingram Flagship Batch Six Arrives for Bourbon Heritage Month — A River-Aged Wheated Bourbon Worth Hunting Down Every September, the American bourbon industry collectively exhales, uncorks, and celebrates. Bourbon Heritage Month has become one of the most commercially and culturally dense stretches

Woodford Reserve's 2026 Master's Collection No. 22: Super Seasoned Oak Is the Most Technically Ambitious Bourbon of the Year Every fall, the bourbon world braces for a wave of limited releases — dusty finds, allocated unicorns, and highly marketed annual drops that range from genuinely innovative

From the Idaho Highlands to the Gulf Coast: Warfield Distillery Brings Its American Single Malt to Sarasota There is a moment that comes to certain people when they step inside a truly exceptional distillery — a moment when the smell of fermenting grain, the copper glow of the stills, and the weig

From Farm to Bottle: How Two Wisconsin Sisters Are Building a Bourbon Legacy on 150 Years of Family Land There is a particular kind of stubbornness that runs through families who have worked the same land for generations — a refusal to let go of what their ancestors sacrificed to build, even when