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Same Company, Different Name, Same Playbook: The ASA Takes Another Swing at Capgroup Int There is a particular audacity to getting caught running misleading advertising, rebranding twice, and then getting caught again doing the very same thing. That is precisely where Capgroup Int Ltd finds itself

American whiskey makers just got caught in the middle of a fight that has nothing to do with the whiskey itself, and now they're bracing for another hit. President Trump has signed a proclamation putting a 50% tariff on spirits coming in from Canada, and the group that speaks for the U.S. distilled

Where Barrel Char Meets Baseball Chalk: Whiskey Thief and the Louisville Bats Redefine What a Night at the Ballpark Can Be There are cities in America where bourbon is a backdrop — a regional quirk, a tourist trinket, something poured at the hotel bar and promptly forgotten. Louisville is not one

Scotland's Whisky Tourism Boom Has a New Search Engine — And It Could Change How Americans Plan Their Scotch Pilgrimage For anyone who has ever tried to plan a serious whisky trip through Scotland, the process has always felt oddly primitive. You know the names — Glenfiddich, Ardbeg, Benromach, Ab

How Trump's Tariffs Turned Americans Away from Scotch Whisky and Scottish Salmon The numbers coming out of Scotland tell a brutal story. In the first quarter of 2026, two of the country's most iconic exports — Scotch whisky and Atlantic salmon — took a beating in their most valuable foreign market

Anyone who's spent time around whisky knows the romance of it all. The oak barrels stacked in cool stone warehouses. The angel's share evaporating into the Scottish air. The idea that somewhere in a dark building near a river or a coastline, a cask is quietly turning into something worth waiting fo

A New Tool Built for the Small Guys in a Big Industry Running a craft distillery is not for the faint of heart. Between permits, aging barrels, and trying to get a bottle onto a liquor store shelf next to the big national brands, small distillers rarely have time to dig through spreadsheets and ma

Still In Cask Opens the World's First Peer-to-Peer Exchange for Whisky Cask Shares — And the Implications Run Deep For most of whisky's long, storied history, the barrier between an enthusiast and a barrel of maturing spirit has been simple and brutal: money. Lots of it. A whole cask from a reputa

The Receiver Fires Back: Inside Uncle Nearest's Stunning Counterclaim Against Farm Credit Mid-America What began as a straightforward, if brutal, lender enforcement action has taken a turn that almost nobody saw coming. The court-appointed receiver overseeing the battered Uncle Nearest whiskey emp

Bacardi Goes All In: The Spirits Giant Completes Full Acquisition of Teeling Irish Whiskey For nine years, the relationship between Bacardi Limited and the Teeling Whiskey Company operated like a slow burn — a minority stake here, a majority share there, a gradual tightening of the grip until, on