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Jim Gaffigan's Fathertime Bourbon Wins Best New Bourbon at the 2026 San Francisco World Spirits Competition Celebrity spirits are everywhere these days, and most of them are exactly what you'd expect: a famous face slapped on a bottle of sourced whiskey with a sky-high price tag and zero soul behi

Maker's Mark Is Going "Perfectly Unreasonable" — and the Bourbon World Is Watching When a spirits brand drops a major global campaign in the middle of an industry-wide hangover, it either looks tone-deaf or brilliantly defiant. Maker's Mark is betting everything on the latter. In February 2025, th

Old Grand-Dad Is Back: The Second Batch of Its 7-Year Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon Has Arrived If you've been following what James B. Beam Distilling Co. has been quietly doing with its portfolio of historic, once-overlooked labels, the arrival of the second annual batch of Old Grand-Dad 7-Year Bottled

From a Scottish Dream to Rocky Mountain Reality: Rick Thomas Distillery Releases Its First Premium Whiskey Black Hawk, Colorado, has always been a place of extraction — gold pulled from its creeks, money pulled from its casino floors. Now, father-and-son distillers Brian and Declan Watts are tryin

Rare Find Puts Glenglassaugh Through Three Cask Finishes — and the Results Are Worth Hunting Down There is a particular kind of release in the independent bottling world that does more than add another expression to a shelf. It makes an argument — about a distillery's range, about the science of f

New Riff's 2026 Headliner: The Most Ambitious Pour Yet From Newport's Most Inventive Distillery Every now and then, a Kentucky craft distillery does something that makes the entire industry stop and pay attention. New Riff Distilling, tucked into Newport on the southern bank of the Ohio River, has

Fireball Is Putting Whisky in Your Shoes: The Story Behind the Brand's Most Outrageous Limited Drop Yet There have been plenty of strange brand collaborations in the spirits world over the years — bourbon-branded beef jerky, whiskey-scented candles, rye-infused hot sauce — but Fireball Cinnamon Wh

There's a certain kind of whiskey drinker who doesn't get excited about another shelf-stable, mass-produced bottle that'll be sitting in the same spot next year. That guy wants something that's actually going to run out. Something with a story attached to it that he can tell his buddies about later

Root Shoot Spirits Drops a Limited Peach Brandy Cask Whiskey That Colorado Won't Forget There are whiskey releases, and then there are whiskey releases that tell a story so deeply rooted in a single place that the liquid inside the bottle almost doesn't need a tasting note — the origin does the ta

Stranahan's Colorado 150: The Pioneers List Honors the Trailblazers Who Shaped the Centennial State There is something fitting about a whiskey distillery — one that spent years being dismissed as an outlier in a bourbon-dominated industry — turning around and honoring the outliers who built Colora