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Blue Run Spirits Honors America's 250th Birthday With a Bourbon Built for the Moment There are moments in a nation's life so singular that every industry feels compelled to mark them. America's 250th anniversary — the Semiquincentennial — is one of them. From automakers to apparel brands, the patr

What Prohibition-Era Whiskey Bottles Reveal Today For thirteen long years, from 1920 to 1933, it was against the law to make, sell or transport alcohol anywhere in the United States. The 18th Amendment shut the door on legal drinking almost overnight, and most of the country's distilleries went da

Iron Smoke Whiskey Crosses the Country: New York's Applewood-Smoked Bourbon Lands in California There are distilleries that play it safe — standard mash bills, familiar flavor profiles, distribution strategies that hug the coasts where the name already means something. Then there are distilleries

The results are in from one of the most respected spirits competitions on the planet, and the numbers tell a story worth paying attention to. The International Wine & Spirits Competition — known in the industry as the IWSC, and nicknamed the Olympics of the drinks world — wrapped up its 2026 No

There's a moment when a craft distillery stops being a promising upstart and becomes something the whole country needs to pay attention to. For Woodinville Whiskey Co., that moment may have just arrived. Washington state's largest craft distillery has announced the national rollout of two new r

Green River's Oldest Bourbon Yet: Inside the Distillery Select Toasted Double Oak There are milestone releases, and then there are releases that signal a distillery has finally arrived at its full potential. For Green River Distilling Co. in Owensboro, Kentucky, the unveiling of its inaugural Dist

Hard Truth's 2026 Double Oaked Sweet Mash Rye Is the Indiana Distillery's Most Deliberate Release Yet Hard Truth Distilling Co. has built its reputation on doing things its own way — grain-to-glass production on a sprawling Brown County, Indiana campus, a stubborn commitment to the sweet mash proc

Heaven Hill Drops the Spring 2026 Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond Decanter: What You Need to Know About the 17th Edition Every year, twice a year, bourbon collectors across the country mark their calendars for one of the most anticipated allocated releases in American whiskey. Heaven Hill Distiller

Most Americans know the Boston Tea Party. Far fewer know about the night a band of Rhode Island colonists rowed out into Narragansett Bay, boarded a British warship, shot its commander, and burned the vessel to the waterline — more than three years before the Declaration of Independence was signed.

Two American Craft Distilleries Are Blending History Into a Bottle — and It Might Be a First A Pennsylvania distillery rooted in the embers of the Whiskey Rebellion and a Kentucky operation that has never sourced a drop of outside spirit are doing something the American whiskey industry has appare