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There's a reason more bourbon drinkers are looking past Kentucky these days, and a distillery out of Centennial, Colorado just gave everyone another reason to pay attention. Branch & Barrel Distilling walked away with four medals from the Bartenders Spirits Awards and two more from the SIP A

Taiwan Wins Again: Kavalan Takes Back-to-Back Whisky of the Year at the 2026 International Whisky Competition When the International Whisky Competition announced its 2026 results on July 7, the envelope might as well have been addressed to Yilan County before it was ever opened. For the second con

The $20 Scotch That's Been Beating Bottles Worth Ten Times Its Price There's a particular kind of satisfaction that comes from watching a budget underdog humiliate the establishment, and in the world of Scotch whisky, few stories deliver that satisfaction quite as cleanly as Aldi's Highland Black

From a Plant Shop Backroom to Scotland's Best Startup: The Remarkable Rise of Tailored Spirits Co. There is a particular kind of ambition that doesn't announce itself loudly. It shows up early, operates quietly, and lets the results do the talking. That's the story of Tailored Spirits Co., the Lei

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

One Thousand Gold Medals: How Kavalan Turned Taiwan Into a World Whisky Powerhouse On June 11, 2026, a distillery tucked into the lush, rain-soaked plains of Yilan County, Taiwan, announced something that would have sounded like fantasy two decades ago: it had crossed the threshold of 1,000 gold m

June 9th, 2026 marks a significant date on the American spirits calendar. The Tasting Alliance officially dropped the full results from two of the most scrutinized competitions in the drinks world: the 2026 San Francisco World Spirits Competition and the 2026 San Francisco Ready-to-Drink Competitio

There is a moment in American whiskey history that tends to arrive quietly, without the marketing blitz of a major distillery rollout or the fanfare of a heritage brand's anniversary expression. It arrives from somewhere unexpected — a family farm in the shadow of the Rockies, a grain-to-glass oper

Milam & Greene's Unabridged Volume 4 Earns Double Platinum at the ASCOT Awards There's a craft distillery sitting in Blanco, Texas — a small Hill Country town about 80 miles outside Austin — that has been quietly building one of the more impressive award records in American whiskey. Milam &amp

Jackson Purchase Bourbon Sweeps the ASCOT Awards With Five Distinctions, Cementing a Remarkable Rise From Western Kentucky Less than a year after its first bottle hit retail shelves in Kentucky, Jackson Purchase Bourbon has made a statement that few debut releases manage in one of the industry's m