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Most distilleries spend real money and labor rotating barrels so sediment doesn't settle. At Peach Street Distillers in Palisade, Colorado, a freight line does the job for free. Trains rumbling past the building shake the rickhouse often enough that the barrels never need turning, according to the

Three different wine and brandy casks, two ages of straight bourbon and one very specific job: standing up to a cigar. That is the brief behind First West Cigar Blend , a new limited release from Bardstown, Kentucky, producer 15 STARS, announced on October 20. The bourbon combines 11- and 15-year-

Nine Minds, Eleven Barrels, One Bottle: Inside New Era Distillery's Marquee Small Batch Bourbon The bourbon industry has always celebrated the solitary genius — the master distiller who pulls a thief from a rick house barrel, tilts it to the light, and renders judgment alone. New Era Distillery, t

Nick Offerman Fronts Men's Journal's Fall 2026 Whiskey Special — And the Issue Runs Deep Every fall, as temperatures drop and the pull toward a thoughtful pour grows stronger, Men's Journal devotes an entire issue to the world of whiskey. This year's edition arrives with particular weight. Actor

Most whiskey brand histories are written as if every old label was always meant to end up on a back bar. Pond Fork was never that kind of whiskey. When Corning & Company first produced it in Peoria, Illinois, in 1893, it was a trade product, sold to blenders, rectifiers and wholesale houses who

Anyone who spent time around Booker Noe remembers the voice before anything else. The late Jim Beam master distiller, the grandson of Jim Beam himself and the man who put his name on a barrel-strength bourbon in 1988, was known for a deep, carrying baritone that could fill a rickhouse. Praise from

From the Garden of Ireland to American Shelves: Garden County Irish Whiskey Makes Its U.S. Debut On October 14, 2026, a small family-run operation based in County Wicklow, Ireland made its first formal move into one of the most competitive spirits markets on the planet. Garden County Irish Whiskey

The barrels went into the warehouses on Coy Hill in 2016. Ten years later, roughly 300 of them have been pulled, and each one is being bottled on its own. That is the short version of the 2026 Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Special Release, and it marks a first: after several years of high-proof Tenne

Whiskey as the New Gold Standard for American Gift-Giving Something significant has shifted in how Americans mark the moments that matter. The bottle that once lived quietly on a home bar shelf — pulled out on poker nights or sipped alone after a long week — has migrated squarely into the center o

Delta One Goes Bourbon Country: Blanton's Single Barrel Is Now Flying at 35,000 Feet For years, tracking down a bottle of Blanton's Original Single Barrel Bourbon has been something of a sport — a mix of patience, luck, and a willingness to show up at a liquor store the moment the doors open. Some