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Hard Truth's Dark Roast Rye Is the Boldest Move Yet from Indiana's Most Ambitious Distillery There's a particular kind of credibility that can only be earned over time — not just in the barrel, but in the philosophy behind the barrel. Hard Truth Distilling Co., tucked into Brown County, Indiana, h

There's a certain kind of whiskey drinker who's tried it all. The bourbons, the ryes, the single barrels, the store picks. He's got opinions about mash bills and he knows the difference between a finish and a flavor. For that guy, TX Whiskey has something new to put in front of him, and it's worth

There's a moment every whiskey drinker knows. You're standing in front of a shelf, looking at another bottle that promises to be "unique" or "small batch" or "limited," and you wonder if it's actually going to taste any different from the last ten you tried. Most of the time, the answer is no. But

Chattanooga Whiskey Goes to Eastern Europe: Moldovan Ice Wine Cask Finish Arrives as Eighth Barrel Finishing Series Release Chattanooga Whiskey has built its reputation on a particular kind of audacity — the willingness to reach far beyond Tennessee's borders, beyond Kentucky's established bourbon

Riley Green's Duck Club Bourbon: Where the Duck Blind Meets the Barrel There's a particular kind of credibility that no publicist can manufacture and no brand consultant can engineer — the kind that comes from a man who actually does the thing he's selling. When Riley Green stepped into the spirit

A Millennium in the Ground, a New Life in the Glass: Boann Distillery's 1,000-Year-Old Irish Oak Casks When Storm Elin tore through County Meath in December 2023, it brought down more than just a tree. The storm toppled a millennium-old oak on Preston's Estate at Swainstown Farm — a giant that had

Jack Daniel's Special Release Small Batch Rye: The Hazmat Whiskey That Almost Wasn't There is a stretch of land tucked into the hills above Lynchburg, Tennessee, where whiskey does things it probably shouldn't. The temperatures swing hard with the seasons, the wood works the spirit with unusual ag

Kentucky bourbon has always been about patience. You wait years for a barrel to turn into something worth drinking, and you wait even longer for a company to prove it's in it for the long haul. Sazerac just gave the state another reason to believe it's not going anywhere. The company announced this

Unreined Whiskey Opens Its WildHorse Ranch Visitor Center — And Texas Bourbon Tourism Will Never Be the Same For decades, the pilgrimage to great American whiskey meant one thing: a road trip through central Kentucky, dodging slow-moving tractors on the way to Bardstown, Buffalo Trace, or one of t

The Hat That Built the West Is Now in a Glass: Stetson Bourbon Has Arrived There are very few brand names in American history that carry the weight of an entire cultural epoch. Coca-Cola. Levi's. Winchester. And Stetson. Since 1865, that name has sat atop the heads of cowboys, lawmen, presidents,