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Every September, American whiskey gets a month of its own. National Bourbon Heritage Month puts a spotlight on the only spirit Congress ever singled out as "America's Native Spirit," and it gives drinkers a reason to pull something off the back of the shelf and pour it slowly. Most of the attention

Kansas City's Whiskey Comeback Story Gets Its Biggest Chapter Yet There's something about waiting ten years for anything that feels almost foreign these days. Ten years of patience, in a world where most things get rushed out the door the moment they're marketable. But that's exactly what J. Riege

Nebraska's Quiet Distillery Just Swept a National Whiskey Competition — and the Industry Should Be Paying Attention There is a certain kind of satisfaction that comes from watching an underdog clean up in a room full of heavyweights. For anyone who follows American craft spirits, the results comin

Two Trees Beverage Wins Gold and Platinum at the 2026 SIP Awards — And the Story Behind the Bourbons Is Just as Interesting as the Medals On August 25, 2026, a small but increasingly hard-to-ignore bourbon operation out of Fletcher, North Carolina, collected two of the more prestigious hardware pi

Fireball Torch'd Vanilla Is Here, and It Might Be the Brand's Best Move Yet Fireball has never been shy about who it is. The brand built its entire platform off a whisky made for shots and for having a good time, achieving viral status at Pitbull concerts and leaning hard into its well-known tagli

When Michter's dropped the news at the end of August 2026, it arrived with the kind of casual confidence that only a distillery operating at the very top of its game can muster. On the heels of being named The World's #1 Most Admired Whiskey for an unprecedented fourth consecutive year, Michter's a

Michter's Claims the World's Most Admired Whiskey Title for the Fourth Year Running There are rankings, and then there are statements. When a Louisville distillery beats out every Scotch, Japanese, Irish, and American competitor on the planet's most scrutinized whiskey list — not once, not twice,

William Grant & Sons Takes the Grouse: Inside One of Scotch's Most Consequential Ownership Deals in Years When two privately held Scottish whisky dynasties shake hands over a brand that has defined blended Scotch for more than a century, the industry takes notice. On July 1, 2025, William Gran

New Riff's Sherry Finish Malted Rye Is Back — and It's Better Than Ever Northern Kentucky's New Riff Distilling has never been a distillery content to stand still. Since its founding in 2014, the Newport-based operation has stacked accolades, pushed category boundaries, and built a reputation as o

Bardstown Bourbon Company's Fall 2026 Releases: Discovery #14 and Lochs of Jura Are Two of the Most Compelling Whiskeys of the Year Bardstown Bourbon Company has never been a distillery content to do things the conventional way. From the moment it opened its doors in 2016, the Bardstown, Kentucky