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Next Century Spirits Acquires Chicken Cock Whiskey Portfolio
Next Century Spirits Acquires Chicken Cock Whiskey and the Entire Grain & Barrel Brand Portfolio A North Carolina-based spirits company that has spent the better part of a decade quietly assembling one of the more aggressive brand portfolios in the American spirits industry just made its most
The Science Behind Mango Notes in Aged Single Malts
The Mystery Behind Your Whisky's Mango Notes Has Finally Been Solved Any serious whisky drinker who has spent time with an aged single malt — especially one from the Highland or Speyside regions — has likely caught a fleeting whiff of something almost tropical. Not imagined, not conjured from wish
A Three-Day Pause Could Save American Whiskey
Canadians and Americans have been fighting over booze for a year and a half now, and it's finally starting to look like somebody blinked. On the night of August 18, 2026, President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social account that he was hitting pause on a massive tariff hike that was set to ham
Brown-Forman's Decline Signals Trouble for American Whiskey
Jack Daniel's Maker Brown-Forman Is Flashing Warning Signs — and the Whole American Whiskey Industry Should Pay Attention For more than 150 years, Brown-Forman Corporation has been one of the most recognizable names in the American spirits business. It survived Prohibition, weathered the long bour
Farm Distillery Roots Rye Whiskey in NY's Hudson Valley
A Farm That Smelled Like Sheep Now Smells Like Whiskey: Inside Silver Brothers Spirits' New York Debut There are distilleries that make whiskey, and then there are distilleries that are built from the ground up — from the soil beneath your boots to the glass in your hand — out of an almost stubbor
Wee Smoky's Peated Scotch RTD Cocktails Shake Up Market
Wee Smoky's Six-Can Salvo: How an Edinburgh Scotch Brand Is Rewriting the Rules of the RTD Market The ready-to-drink cocktail market has never lacked for ambition, but it has long lacked a credible peated Scotch whisky voice. That changes now. Scottish whisky brand Wee Smoky has expanded into the
Sagamore's High-Rye Bourbon Makes Its UK Debut
Sagamore's High-Rye Bourbon Crosses the Atlantic: What It Means for Maryland Whiskey on the World Stage There are moments in a distillery's arc that signal something larger than a new product launch — a crossing of a threshold that reframes what the brand is, what it represents, and where it inten
Revolver Brewing Expands Into Whiskey, Gin, and Vodka
From the Brewery to the Bottle Shop: Revolver Brewing Goes All-In on Spirits There is a certain logic to what Revolver Brewing has just done — and a certain audacity. On July 23, 2026, the Granbury, Texas-born brewery officially dropped the last word of its name and replaced it with something bigg
The Decade-Long Bet That Built Argentina's First Andean Single Malt
Inside the Decade-Long Bet That Built the World's First Andean Single Malt Whisky In 2013, two Argentine brothers drove into the wine country of Mendoza with a plan that sounded, to most people in the spirits world, somewhere between ambitious and reckless. When brothers Cristian and Gabriel Willi
Tariff-Free Scotch: Why Americans Expect No Price Relief
The Tariff Is Gone — But Don't Hold Your Breath for Cheaper Scotch The 10% tariff on Scotch whisky entering the United States is officially history. The levy lifted at 12:01 a.m. Eastern on July 24, 2026, and the first duty-free shipment left Scotland within 48 hours. Governments on both sides of
