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The Barrel Is Full, the Market Is Empty: How America's Whiskey Debt Crisis Got Here Walk into any rickhouse in Kentucky or Tennessee right now and you will find an industry that has been quietly holding its breath. Millions of gallons of American whiskey are resting in white oak barrels, waiting t

From Afghanistan to the Bluegrass: Horse Soldier Bourbon's $200 Million Homecoming in Somerset, Kentucky On July 1, 2026 — three days before America's 250th birthday — a distillery unlike any other in the country swung open its doors in Somerset, Kentucky. Governor Andy Beshear joined local offici

The Fall of an Icon: How Uncle Nearest's Martha's Vineyard Property Became the First Domino Few stories in American spirits have carried the emotional weight of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey. Built from scratch on the long-buried legacy of Nathan "Nearest" Green — the man who taught Jack Daniel to

Blended Spirits Are Crashing the American Whiskey Party — and This Time, It's Not a Fluke The American whiskey world has spent the better part of a decade obsessing over single barrels, age statements, and the scarcity game. Allocated bottles disappeared from shelves in hours. Secondary market pri

Pennsylvania Senate Moves to Crown Rye Whiskey as the Official Spirit of the Commonwealth A bill that would make rye whiskey the official state spirit of Pennsylvania cleared its first major legislative hurdle this week, advancing through the State Government Committee and heading to a full Senate

Judge Dismisses Defamation Suit Against Bardstown Bourbon Whistleblower, Deepening Scrutiny of the Distillery's Corporate Culture A Kentucky circuit court judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit that a former Bardstown Bourbon Company executive filed against the whistleblower at the center of a h

The Bourbon Boom Is Over. Now What? For roughly two decades, the American bourbon industry operated with the quiet confidence of a category that could do no wrong. Distilleries expanded. Warehouses filled. Allocated bottles became cultural currency. Tourists flooded into Kentucky to take barrel to

The Biggest Whiskey Market in the World Has Been Almost Off-Limits to American Bourbon. That Could Finally Change. In Washington, the conversations happening right now between American trade officials and their Indian counterparts may carry more weight for the bourbon industry than anything that h

Ian Macleod Pulls Back at Glengoyne and Rosebank as Scotch Hits a Wall The numbers coming out of Broxburn tell a story the Scotch industry can no longer afford to whisper. Ian Macleod Distillers, one of Scotland's last major family-owned whisky businesses, has disclosed a 30% cut in annual product

Edrington Posts "Resilient" Fiscal 2026 Results as The Macallan Gains Ground and Prestige Scotch Stumbles Edrington, the whisky and spirits producer behind Speyside premium malt The Macallan, has cheered a "resilient" full-year performance in the face of a volatile market. That word — resilient —