Recent Whiskey News

Every December, the same problem hits a lot of guys: you’ve got a brother-in-law who already owns every tool known to man, a boss who pretends he doesn’t want anything, and a fishing buddy who swears he’s happy with a six-pack. Then you remember the one thing they never turn down—a really good bott

Deep in the heart of Texas Hill Country, a tiny batch of bourbon just hit the shelves that might make a grown man stare at his glass and forget the football game is on. Milam & Greene Whiskey released Unabridged Volume 4 this month, and if you manage to get your hands on a bottle, you’ll unders

There’s something about fall Saturdays in College Station that just feels right. The roar of 100,000-plus fans inside Kyle Field, the smell of barbecue smoke drifting across campus, and now—starting this season—a proper Texas-made whiskey flowing at the stadium and tailgates. Unreined Whiskey, a br

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

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

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

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

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

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

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