Recent Whiskey News
What If Your Bourbon Came From Another World?
Deep in the rolling hills of Clermont, Kentucky, something strange has been happening inside the James B. Beam rickhouses for the last decade and a half. The same exact mashbill – the recipe of corn, rye, and barley – was poured into barrels and then scattered across different warehouses. Some barr
Black Friday’s Best Buy Isn’t a TV, It’s This Whiskey
Deep in the heart of Seattle, where the salt air off Elliott Bay mixes with the smell of fresh-roasted coffee, two old friends just pulled off something that feels like it was thirty-five years in the making. Starting this Black Friday, November 28, 2025, a very limited run of 1,800 bottles of Cop
White Oak Is Dying, This Barrel Fights Back
The alarm clock hasn’t even gone off yet and half the country is already thinking about bourbon. It’s in the coffee mug on the workbench, the flask in the deer stand, the bottle on the shelf that only comes down when the kids finally move out. Bourbon isn’t just a drink in America – it’s a handshak
What Happens When Bourbon Becomes Cologne?
Most guys have a bottle of something on the dresser that’s been there since the Clinton administration. It gets a splash on New Year’s Eve, maybe a wedding, and that’s it. Then Elijah Craig went and did something nobody saw coming: they took the exact smell of their charred oak barrels—the ones tha
This the Ultimate Whiskey Lover’s Countdown to Christmas
Every December, the same old cardboard Advent calendars show up in stores – cheap chocolate behind flimsy doors that tear the second you touch them. Most guys gave up on that routine years ago. But what if someone took the idea, threw out the kiddie stuff, and built something a grown man would actu
Could a Tiny Indiana Farm Just Make the Best Bourbon on Earth?
On a quiet November evening in San Francisco, something happened that nobody in the bourbon world saw coming. A small family distillery from southern Indiana – the kind of place you drive past on a two-lane road without even noticing – walked away with the biggest prize in American whiskey. Starlig
One Of The Most Exciting American Whiskey Releases of the Decade
Chip Tate, the man who put Texas whiskey on the map with Balcones, has been quiet for a while. Not anymore. After stepping into the role of Master Distiller for Innovation at Foley Family Wines & Spirits back in early 2024, he just dropped his first new project: Ampersand. Three small-batch spi
Is This the Bourbon That Finally Beats Scotch at Its Own Game?
For the last six years, Julie Macklowe has been turning heads with her American single malt that drinks more like a Highland classic than anything coming out of Kentucky. Now she’s coming for bourbon itself. Today The Macklowe brand dropped the Sapphire Bourbon Collection—two new Kentucky straights
Did Calvados Barrels Change Bourbon Forever?
Deep in the rolling hills of Kentucky, where bourbon has been made pretty much the same way for two hundred years, something wild just happened. Bardstown Bourbon Company took some of their oldest whiskey—11 and 12-year-old stock—and let it sleep for another 28 months inside barrels that used to ho
When a Kid’s Glove Changed Baseball History – And Gave Us One Hell of a Bourbon
Most guys can remember the exact moment baseball got its hooks in them. For Matt Lurin, it happened in Cooperstown when he was twelve years old, standing in front of a display case at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Something didn’t look right about the mitt tagged to a 1920s ballplayer. The st
