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Powdermen Spirits Moves to Windsor with Bigger Distillery
From Blasting Caps to Bourbon Barrels: Powdermen Spirits Plants Its Flag in Windsor, Connecticut There is a specific kind of stubbornness that separates a hobbyist who dreams about distilling from someone who actually builds a distillery. Frank Lucca belongs firmly in the second category — and now
Brown-Forman Rejects Sazerac's $15B Takeover Bid Twice
Brown-Forman Tells Sazerac to Take a Hike — Again In one of the most dramatic corporate standoffs the American spirits industry has seen in years, Brown-Forman Corporation officially rejected a renewed unsolicited takeover bid from Sazerac on Sunday, July 26, 2026, declaring the proposal "not acti
Moonshine University Is Closing: What It Means for Craft Whiskey
Moonshine University Is Closing Its Doors — And What It Means for American Whiskey For fourteen years, a converted building on South 8th Street in Louisville, Kentucky served as something genuinely rare in the American spirits world: a place where anyone with the drive and the tuition could walk i
Canada's Ban on American Spirits Is Reshaping Whiskey Sales
When Trade Wars Come for the Whiskey Shelf: How Canada's Ban on American Spirits Is Reshaping the Brown Liquor Landscape There is a particular kind of dissonance that hits you when you walk into a government liquor store and find a wall of empty shelving where the bourbon used to be. No Jim Beam.
Ohio Man Takes Home Distilling Ban to Supreme Court
An Ohio Brewery Owner, a Copper Pot Still, and the Future of Federal Power It is not every day that a man's desire to make a small batch of bourbon at home winds up at the steps of the United States Supreme Court. But John Ream, an accomplished aerospace engineer and brewery owner from Ohio, would
Scotch Whisky Waste Is Now Becoming Luxury Skin Care
From Distillery Floor to Skin Care Shelf: How Scotch Whisky Waste Is Reinventing the Cosmetics Supply Chain Every year, Scotland's whisky industry generates millions of liters of spent liquid and spent grain — the inevitable byproduct of distilling one of the world's most celebrated spirits. For m
UK Parliament Launches Full Scotch Whisky Industry Inquiry
Westminster Steps In: UK Parliament Launches Full Scotch Whisky Inquiry as Industry Faces Crisis on Multiple Fronts The United Kingdom's Scottish Affairs Committee has thrown the full weight of parliamentary scrutiny behind one of Britain's most celebrated industries. The Scottish Affairs Committe
Irish Whiskey Casks Go Digital via Blockchain Tokens
Irish Whiskey Meets the Blockchain: Marrowbone Lane's Tokenised Cask Play Could Rewrite How the World Invests in Spirits For generations, owning a cask of aging Irish whiskey was the kind of investment that required both deep pockets and the right connections. A collector in London or Dublin might
Alabama Cooperage Closes, Shaking Jack Daniel's Supply Chain
The Barrel That Built a Legend Is Going Dark: Alabama Cooperage to Shut Its Doors A cooperage in a small north Alabama town has been quietly doing some of the most important work in American whiskey for more than a decade — bending, charring, and sealing the white oak containers that give Jack Dan
MGP Whiskey Sales Crater 59% as Bourbon Glut Deepens
MGP's Brown Goods Crisis: Whiskey Sales Crater 59% in Q2 as the American Bourbon Glut Deepens The numbers are ugly and getting uglier. MGP Ingredients, the Kansas-based company that sits at the very center of the American whiskey supply chain, reported second-quarter 2026 results on July 29 that l
