Recent Whiskey News

Most guys can remember the exact moment baseball got its hooks in them. For Matt Lurin, it happened in Cooperstown when he was twelve years old, standing in front of a display case at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Something didn’t look right about the mitt tagged to a 1920s ballplayer. The st

Every year around Thanksgiving, whiskey lovers start hunting for that one special bottle to crack open when the family’s gathered around the fire or the cards are on the table. This year, a lot of guys are going to reach for something they’ve never tried before: a 12-year-old Kentucky straight bour

There’s something about a slow sip of good Kentucky bourbon that feels a lot like the low hum of a John Lee Hooker riff – unhurried, deep in the chest, and full of stories most folks never get told. Now those two worlds have finally come together the way they always should have. The family of t

Walk into any good bar in America and there’s a decent chance an Old Forester bottle is sitting on the back shelf. Most of us reach for the 86, the 100, or maybe splurge on a 1920 when we’re feeling fancy. We know the name, we trust the taste, and we figure the story starts and ends with George Gar

Deep in South Texas, where the horizon seems to stretch forever and the wind still carries the dust of cattle drives, sits the 825,000-acre King Ranch. For more than 170 years it has stood as the unbreakable backbone of American ranching. Six hours north, in a quiet Louisville warehouse, another Am

Deep in Bucks County, where the cornfields still outnumber the strip malls, Warwick Farm Brewing has spent the last decade quietly earning a reputation among guys who know their beer. The kind of place you drive a little out of your way for, grab a pint of something dark and chewy, and leave with a

Remember when a big night out meant throwing on a sport coat, sliding into a red-leather booth, and letting the bartender keep the rye coming while the steaks sizzled? Those old-school supper clubs were where deals got done, stories got taller, and nobody looked at their phone for four straight hou

Every fall, something special happens in Louisville that pulls together two things most guys love: hard-to-find whiskey and a rock-solid reason to open the wallet. Kroger just kicked off its fifth annual Ultimate Bourbon Auction on November 12th, and this year the lineup is stacked deeper than ever

Every fall, something special happens in a little Wyoming town most folks have never heard of. Out in Kirby, population barely 72, the guys at Wyoming Whiskey crack open the warehouse doors and roll out the next bottle in their National Parks series. This year, the fifth one, they’re calling it Nat

For a lot of guys who’ve been around the block a few times, thirty years feels like a lifetime. It’s long enough to raise kids, build a career, maybe even retire and start wondering what comes next. So when a bourbon has sat in a barrel for three full decades, quietly doing its thing in the rickhou