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Carnival Cruise Line Drops a President-Picked, Single-Barrel Bulleit Bourbon for America's 250th — And You Can Only Get It at Sea There's a bourbon out there right now that you cannot walk into a liquor store and buy. You cannot order it online. You cannot find it at an airport duty-free counter o

Louisville's Premier Whiskey Gathering Is Back: The 4th Annual American Whiskey Festival Set for August 15, 2026 There are whiskey events, and then there are institutions. After three years of steady growth in the heart of Louisville's Norton Commons neighborhood, the American Whiskey Festival has

A Small-Town Kentucky Distillery Just Made a Big Patriotic Move With Spirit 76 Deep in Logan County, Kentucky, in a town most Americans could not find on a map, a small craft distillery has made one of the more fitting launches of the America250 season. Shawn McCormick, owner and founder of B.H. J

Indiana's Most Iconic Fox Gets His Own Whiskey — Again He has presided over decades of power dinners, championship celebrations, and quiet weeknight steaks from his perch inside one of the Midwest's most storied restaurants. He has watched governors, athletes, and business titans come and go. And

Peg Leg Porker's "Spirit of America" Is the Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon That America's 250th Deserves Most commemorative spirits are afterthoughts — slap a patriotic label on an existing product, ship it to liquor stores before the holiday rush, and collect the seasonal dollars. Peg Leg Porker Spirits

Rocky Bleier's Purple Heart Bourbon: A Four-Time Super Bowl Champion Turns Gridiron Grit Into a Glass Rocky Bleier has never done anything small. He played college football at Notre Dame, got drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers, went to war in Vietnam, took a grenade blast to his right foot and rif

Coors Whiskey Co. Drops a Rare 8-Year Blended American Malt — Only 1,200 Bottles Exist When most people picture Coors, they picture a cold can cracked open at a tailgate, or the silver bullet sitting in a cooler at the edge of a mountain stream. Whiskey does not typically enter the frame. But Coor

From Champagne Country to the Whisky World: The Moutard Family's Boldest Release Yet There are a handful of distilleries in the world capable of drawing a straight, unbroken line between the soil under their feet and the spirit in their bottle. The Moutard family of Buxeuil, France, is one of them

Some distilleries take their time. Jackson Purchase Distillery is not one of them. Barely a year removed from putting its very first bottle on store shelves, the Hickman, Kentucky outfit is already back with two more bourbons, and each one tells a different story about what this young company is tr

Blue Run Spirits Honors America's 250th Birthday With a Bourbon Built for the Moment There are moments in a nation's life so singular that every industry feels compelled to mark them. America's 250th anniversary — the Semiquincentennial — is one of them. From automakers to apparel brands, the patr