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DISCUS Takes the Fight to Austin: Why Private-Label Spirits Transparency Is Now a Texas Senate Issue On September 15, 2026, the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States brought one of the spirits industry's quieter but increasingly consequential debates directly to the Texas Senate Committee

West of Tradition: How Westland Distillery's New Documentary Reframes the Entire American Single Malt Conversation There's a particular kind of ambition that doesn't announce itself loudly. It just keeps showing up — in the fields, in the stillhouse, in the barrel room — year after year, doing the

Larrikin Bourbon Co. Brings the Australia Series to the 2026 Kentucky Bourbon Festival — and It's as Wild as It Sounds There are craft bourbon releases, and then there are moments that make you stop and genuinely ask whether what you're reading is real. Larrikin Bourbon Co.'s Australia Series fall

Starlight Distillery's 10-Year Mizunara Reserve: The Rarest Bottle to Come Out of Southern Indiana When a craft distillery pulls a decade-aged bourbon from a single cask of centuries-old Japanese oak, limits the release to 250 bottles, and puts it through a lottery, it tends to get people's attent

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