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Every September, distillers and maltsters across the country mark Craft Malt Month, a shoutout to the small operations that turn raw barley into the base of everything that gets fermented and distilled into whiskey. This year, Seattle's Copperworks Distilling Co. is marking the occasion with someth

There's a moment every serious bourbon drinker chases: the first sip of something that was never watered down to fit a spec sheet. That's the pitch behind the newest release from Knob Creek, and it's arriving just in time for the season when good bottles get passed around living rooms across the co

A Spirit Category Nobody Saw Coming Whiskey drinkers have spent the last decade chasing every angle on the category — high rye mash bills, finishing in wine barrels, single barrel picks, and grain sourced from a single farm down the road. But nobody has really gone after the field pea. Branch &amp

A Ten-Year Project Finally Reaches the Shelf For ten years, a small team in Shelbyville, Kentucky worked on something most bourbon drinkers never knew existed. There was no product on shelves, no marketing campaign, no name people could search for. Just three people quietly building what would bec

For forty years, bourbon drinkers have known the name Elmer T. Lee as a kind of shorthand for doing things the right way. Now, for the first time, Buffalo Trace Distillery is letting people taste that philosophy exactly as it comes out of the barrel, with nothing added and nothing taken away.

Loch Lomond's Waypoint 31 Year Old: The Oldest Peated Single Malt the Distillery Has Ever Released There's a particular kind of patience required to make whisky that most people will never get to try. Thirty-one years of waiting while the world outside the warehouse shifts and changes — while dist

Ardbeg Trudernish: The Distillery's First Permanent 15-Year-Old Is Here — And It's Already Winning Gold There are moments in the Scotch whisky world that feel genuinely overdue, and the arrival of Ardbeg Trudernish is one of them. Ardbeg has unveiled the first permanent 15-year-old expression to i

September Means Bourbon, and This Year a Texas Brand Wants a Seat at the Table Every September, whiskey drinkers across the country mark Bourbon Heritage Month by pulling out their favorite pours and maybe trying something new. This year, a Texas-based whiskey company called Koopers Whiskey is usi

Buzzard's Roost French Double Oak Bourbon Is Back — and It's Borrowed Straight from the Wine World's Most Celebrated Forest There are bourbon releases that show up, fill a slot on a shelf, and disappear. Then there are releases that sell out fast enough to create a waiting list the next time aroun

Four Roses Experimental Series No. 002 Honey Cask Finish: The Bourbon World's Most Inventive New Release There's a moment when a distillery stops playing it safe and starts making history. For Four Roses, that moment arrived in the spring of 2026, when the Lawrenceburg, Kentucky institution releas