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The 4th Annual American Whiskey Festival Is Headed Back to Louisville — And It's Bigger Than Ever Louisville has never needed much of an excuse to throw a whiskey party, but Watch Hill Proper has been giving the city a particularly good one every August. Watch Hill Proper will host the 4th Annual

Alan Jackson's Silverbelly Whiskey Is Now Offering Newlyweds a Personal Gift — Straight From Alan Himself Alan Jackson has spent more than three decades writing songs about love, marriage, and the kind of life worth celebrating. Now, through his Silverbelly Whiskey brand, he's turning that ethos i

Kelsey Plum's Yam Jam Bourbon Is the Celebrity Release That Actually Earns Its Shelf Space The bourbon world has a cynicism problem when it comes to celebrity bottles. For every release that shows genuine engagement with the craft, there are a dozen that amount to little more than a famous face at

Inside Laizhou Distillery: How China's Boldest Whisky Operation Is Rewriting the Global Playbook There is a moment, somewhere between reading about Chinese whisky in theory and actually tasting it in practice, when the skepticism starts to erode. For decades, the whisky world organized itself arou

Willett Fills First Barrel at New Springfield Distillery, Marking One of the Most Significant Expansions in Its Nearly 90-Year History On June 18, 2026, a single barrel of new-make whiskey rolled into a rickhouse on a 150-acre stretch of Washington County farmland in Springfield, Kentucky, and wit

The Old Guard Bourbon Takes Aim at Maryland With a High-Profile Distribution Deal There is a particular kind of momentum in the bourbon world that does not come from marketing budgets or celebrity endorsements. It comes from the glass — from medals earned on blind judging panels, from word passed

Dogfish Head and Rolling Stone Drop a Limited-Edition Whiskey Built for 250 Years of American Rebellion Two institutions that have spent decades refusing to play it straight — one brewing off-centered ales out of coastal Delaware, the other covering rock and roll from a San Francisco basement — ha

Star Trek Spirits Is Back With Mission Two of Its Ultra-Premium Captain's Table Whiskey Series — and This Time Nashville's Best Are at the Helm When the first Captain's Table whiskey series sold out every last bottle, it sent a clear message: serious bourbon collectors and die-hard Star Trek fans

High West's Prisoner's Share 2026: The Red Wine Cask Finish That Gets It Right There is no shortage of cask-finished whiskeys crowding the shelves right now. Expressions that spend time in barrels previously used to age rum, sherry, tequila, and beer after initial maturation have become standard p

Ohio's Most Unusual Bourbon Ages in a Railroad Boxcar — and It's Ready in Under Two Years Deep in the Appalachian hills of Southeast Ohio, a small craft operation has done something that would make most Kentucky traditionalists squirm: it pulled bourbon out of the rickhouse after just 20 months, d