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A Dream Project at The Kentucky Castle Is Now Mired in Debt and Litigation When Wes Henderson sold Angel's Envy to Bacardi in 2015, it capped one of the most celebrated entrepreneurial runs in modern bourbon history. The brand he built alongside his father, the late master distiller Lincoln Hender

Cleveland Whiskey Acquires Seekers Bourbon from Everwild Spirits in a Bold Ohio-to-Ohio Deal Two of Ohio's most closely watched craft whiskey operations have struck a deal that quietly reshuffles the state's artisan spirits landscape. Cleveland Whiskey — the technology-forward distillery that has

From Fireball to Ol' Crimson: How Washington State Is Using Alcohol to Fund Its NIL Revolution Somewhere between Pullman's wheat fields and Seattle's Pike Place waterfront, Washington State University's scrappy NIL infrastructure has quietly pulled off one of college football's more creative fundr

American Whisky Drinkers Don't Trust the Supply Chain to Pass Along Tariff Savings The announcement was supposed to be good news. When President Trump confirmed on April 30, 2026, that the 10% tariff on UK whisky imports would be scrapped — a decision framed in the glow of a high-profile state vis

The End of a Brief Tenure: How Søren Hagh's Sudden Exit Exposed Deep Cracks at William Grant & Sons On the last day of October 2025, William Grant & Sons — the 139-year-old Scottish distilling dynasty behind some of the world's most celebrated whiskies — quietly filed a routine document wi

Dierks Bentley Takes His ROW 94 Whiskey Hologram to Nashville's BNA — and Changes How Bourbon Gets Marketed in Airports Most bourbon brands settle for a shelf placement and a paper shelf talker. Dierks Bentley has other ideas. The multi-platinum country superstar and founder of ROW 94 Whiskey is n

Garrison Brothers Is Growing Fast — and It's Not an Accident Something significant is happening in the Texas Hill Country, and its effects are being felt in liquor stores, hotel bars, and sports venues from coast to coast. Garrison Brothers Distillery, the first legal whiskey distillery in Texas,

A Royal Toast and a Political Brawl: How Trump's Scotch Tariff Reversal Shook Both Sides of the Atlantic For the Scotch whisky industry, the announcement came like a dram poured after a long, punishing drought. On April 30, 2026, President Donald Trump declared via social media that tariffs and re

A Potential Buyer Has Emerged for Uncle Nearest — and the Mystery Runs Deep Nine months of courtroom battles, mounting debt, workforce cuts, and a founder stripped of control have brought one of the most remarkable brands in American whiskey to an unexpected crossroads. On June 1, 2026, court-appo

Her Whiskey Reviews Is Here — and It's About Time The whiskey review space has never been short on opinions. Scores, tasting notes, color charts, finish length in seconds — the machinery of spirits criticism has been grinding for decades, producing a torrent of content that overwhelmingly skews to