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Shankar Distillers Releases Bourbon for America's 250th
Shankar Distillers Drops Varchas 250th Anniversary Edition Bourbon, Putting Michigan Craft Whiskey Front and Center for America's Semiquincentennial There are not many moments in history when a nation pauses to take stock of 250 years of itself — of everything it has built, lost, fought for, and d
Frey Ranch's 10-Year Bourbon Redefines Craft Aging
Nevada's High Desert Just Produced the Oldest Craft Bourbon Ever Aged in the Silver State There is a particular kind of credibility that can only be earned with time. You cannot shortcut it, cannot fabricate it, and certainly cannot buy it off a sourcing broker. In the American craft whiskey world
Black Maple Hill Bourbon Returns to Kentucky After a Decade
Black Maple Hill Is Back — and This Time, It Means Business There are bourbon brands, and then there are bourbon legends. Black Maple Hill occupies that second, rarer category — a name that spent years as shorthand among serious American whiskey drinkers for what the country's finest barrels could
One Bourbon From Every State: The Wildest Blend in American Whiskey History
There has never been a bourbon quite like this. Not even close. A small independent bottler out of Vergennes, Vermont just pulled off something that nobody in the American whiskey industry had ever done before — they blended straight bourbon from all 50 states into a single bottle. Every state.
Breckenridge Distillery Launches Bold 100 Proof Rye Whiskey
Breckenridge Distillery Goes All-In on Rye: The World's Highest Distillery Drops Its Most Focused Whiskey Yet There is something almost defiant about distilling whiskey at nearly two miles above sea level. The air is thin, the temperature swings are dramatic, and the barrels breathe in a way that
A 1700s Recipe Becomes a 1,000-Bottle Rye Whiskey
A Nearly 300-Year-Old Recipe, One July 4th Deadline, and Only 1,000 Bottles to Tell the Story Most American whiskey releases tied to the nation's 250th anniversary are, at best, sincere gestures — a commemorative label slapped on an existing blend, a vintage chosen because the math works out nicel
Secretariat's 1973 Win Inspires $1,500 Kentucky Bourbon
Thirty-One Lengths Bourbon: How Secretariat's Greatest Moment Became Kentucky's Most Ambitious Commemorative Release There are sports moments, and then there are moments that rewrite what human beings — or in this case, animals — believe to be physically possible. June 9, 1973, at Belmont Park in
Woodford Reserve Revives Heirloom Red Corn Bourbon
Woodford Reserve Distillery Series Red Corn: The Heirloom Grain Bourbon That Almost Wasn't There is a moment in every great bourbon's story where something goes sideways — where nature, timing, or circumstance conspires against a distillery's best intentions — and the whiskey that eventually makes
Starlight Distillery's 10-Year Cask Strength Bourbon Arrives
Southern Indiana has long lived in the shadow of its neighbor to the south. Louisville sits just across the Ohio River, and for most whiskey drinkers, that river marks the beginning and end of serious American bourbon country. But a small town perched on the Knobstone Escarpment — a limestone bluff
TX Whiskey Triple Cask: The 17th Experimental Series Release
TX Whiskey Triple Cask: Fort Worth's Boldest Experiment Yet Reaches Its 17th Chapter The Experimental Series from TX Whiskey has never been a collection designed for the faint of palate. Since the Fort Worth distillery launched the program, each release has been a deliberate stress-test of what Te
