Recent Whiskey News

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

For years, the big names in bourbon and rye have battled it out on store shelves and in export markets. Brown-Forman, Diageo, Pernod Ricard, Sazerac, Campari, Suntory—they’ve all been in the ring. But something was missing. The guys who actually make the barrels, the white oak hearts that turn raw

For a lot of guys who’ve been chasing whiskey for the last twenty or thirty years, the name Willett carries serious weight. It’s one of those distilleries that never needed flashy marketing—just rock-solid liquid in the bottle and a family story that feels honest. So when word got out that Willett

In the world of American whiskey, few names carry the weight that Barrell Craft Spirits does among serious drinkers. Since 2013, the Louisville-based outfit has built its reputation on one simple idea: find outstanding barrels from different distilleries, blend them with skill and zero shortcuts, a