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Baker's 13 Year Old Returns: A 107-Proof Single Barrel Bourbon Worth Hunting Down There are bourbon releases that get the internet clicking, and then there are releases that mean something. Baker's 13 Year Old Single Barrel — bottled at 107 proof, drawn from one barrel at a time, and aged for no f

Detroit's Boldest Bourbon Is Coming for the Whiskey-Averse — and It Has a Strategy to Back It Up There is a specific kind of skeptic that every bourbon brand eventually has to reckon with. He's not hostile. He's not uninformed. He just tried whiskey once — maybe at a college party, maybe at a dive

Redwood Empire's "The Hyperion" Is the Most Ambitious California Whiskey Release in Years Something rare happened in American whiskey this August. A California distillery — one built on approachable, terroir-forward blends — threw out the rulebook entirely and started from scratch. The result is

Still Austin's 2026 Fall Bottled in Bond Ties Its Own Age Record — and the Clock Is Still Ticking Every year, when the Texas heat begins its slow, grudging retreat and the Hill Country starts to exhale, Still Austin Whiskey Co. drops its Fall Bottled in Bond Straight Bourbon. It is the anchor of t

Blue Run Spirits and the Detroit Tigers Unite for a 125th Anniversary Bourbon Worth Hunting Down Two institutions built on craftsmanship, pride, and a stubborn refusal to be ordinary have finally found each other. Blue Run Spirits and the Detroit Tigers are releasing the Detroit Tigers Blue Run Bl

Texas Dark Horse: How Austin 121 Cask Strength Light Whiskey Just Won Two of the Most Competitive Awards in the Whiskey World The 2026 International Whisky Competition didn't hand its highest American honors to a Kentucky household name, a Scottish heritage brand, or a Japanese single malt with de

Koopers Whiskey just made a hire that reads less like a corporate reshuffle and more like a homecoming. Jeremy Murray, the Austin hospitality veteran who put Koopers behind the bar more than ten years ago before most people outside Central Texas had ever heard the name, is now stepping inside the

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