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Sazerac Snaps Up Garrard County Distilling for $20 Million, Turning a Bourbon Failure Into a Production Opportunity The bourbon industry's ongoing reckoning with overcapacity and financial overreach has claimed another casualty — and handed one of the sector's most powerful operators a considerabl

The Bourbon Bubble Has Deflated — and American Whiskey Is Looking Outward to Survive For the better part of two decades, American whiskey producers could do almost no wrong. Bourbon was the darling of the domestic spirits industry — a red, white, and blue success story built on premiumization, coc

Cleveland Whiskey Takes a Majority Stake in Sandusky's Everwild Seekers Bourbon Ohio's craft spirits scene just got a whole lot more interesting. Cleveland Whiskey, the technology-driven distillery that has spent nearly two decades turning the conventional wisdom about how American whiskey gets ma

When Kentucky bourbon and Chinese baijiu collide in the same bottle, the result is something the American whiskey world has never quite seen before. A Kentucky distillery and a Chinese spirit maker have partnered to create a new whiskey that draws from two of the world's most storied distilling tra

Alan Jackson's Silverbelly Whiskey Distillery and Museum Opens June 25 in Nashville — A Legacy Poured Into Every Bottle Alan Jackson has spent more than three decades writing songs about the small pleasures and deep aches of American life — cold beer on a hot day, the smell of a dirt road at dusk,

WhistlePig Sells Its Moriah Distillery Complex for Over $17 Million — And the Story Behind the Sale Is Anything But Simple WhistlePig Whiskey, the Vermont-based rye maker that spent years positioning itself as one of America's most decorated premium spirit brands, has sold its Moriah distillery an

Canned Cocktails Surge While Scotch Takes a Body Blow in U.S. Control States The American spirits landscape is undergoing a structural realignment that should concern every importer, distributor, and brand manager who has staked significant shelf space on Scotch whisky. Fresh data from the Nationa

UK Spirits Exports to America Crater 60% in Q1 as Tariff Storm Reshapes the Transatlantic Trade The numbers landing out of London this week are stark enough to demand serious attention from everyone in the American whiskey and spirits trade. New data from the UK's Food and Drink Federation (FDF),

Scotland Comes to Kentucky: How John Swinney's Bourbon Country Visit Signals a New Era for Transatlantic Whisky Trade When John Swinney, Scotland's First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party, touched down in the United States recently, his itinerary read like something stitched toget

The Long Pour: How US Tariffs Drained Scotch Whisky's Most Valuable Market — and What Comes Next For American whisky drinkers, the bottle of single malt sitting on the back bar or aging in the home cabinet has always represented something more than a spirit — it's a product shaped by geography, tr