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Star Trek Spirits Is Back With Mission Two of Its Ultra-Premium Captain's Table Whiskey Series — and This Time Nashville's Best Are at the Helm When the first Captain's Table whiskey series sold out every last bottle, it sent a clear message: serious bourbon collectors and die-hard Star Trek fans

High West's Prisoner's Share 2026: The Red Wine Cask Finish That Gets It Right There is no shortage of cask-finished whiskeys crowding the shelves right now. Expressions that spend time in barrels previously used to age rum, sherry, tequila, and beer after initial maturation have become standard p

Ohio's Most Unusual Bourbon Ages in a Railroad Boxcar — and It's Ready in Under Two Years Deep in the Appalachian hills of Southeast Ohio, a small craft operation has done something that would make most Kentucky traditionalists squirm: it pulled bourbon out of the rickhouse after just 20 months, d

Frank August's Case Study 07 "French Connection": Kentucky's Most Ambitious Whiskey Blend of 2026 There is a particular kind of confidence required to walk into one of the most tradition-bound spirits categories in America and announce, without apology, that the old playbook is being rewritten. Jo

Union Horse Distilling Co. Drops Limited "Match Day" Whiskey to Commemorate Kansas City's World Cup Summer When the 2026 FIFA World Cup arrives in Kansas City this summer, hundreds of thousands of soccer fans from across the globe will pour into a city that — quietly, steadily, over the last sixte

There's a certain kind of whiskey drinker who has tried everything on the shelf twice over, and for that guy, a new bottle from a distillery he already trusts is worth paying attention to. Barton 1792 Distillery, the folks who've been making whiskey in Bardstown, Kentucky since 1879, just rolled ou

Founders Brewing Crosses Into Bourbon Country With Its First-Ever KBS Bourbon For more than two decades, Founders Brewing Co. has occupied a rare space in American craft beer — a brewery whose most celebrated release isn't just beloved, it's genuinely transformative. Kentucky Breakfast Stout, know

Wooler Brands Is Back: A Comeback Story Bottled in Bardstown The bourbon world has no shortage of new brand launches — press releases arrive every week promising the next great American whiskey, each one louder and more polished than the last. Most fade quietly from shelves within two years. But e

Old Pulteney Turns 200 With Its Most Ambitious Whisky Release Ever — A 50-Year-Old That Rewrites the Record Books There are distilleries that make whisky, and then there are distilleries that make history. Old Pulteney, the weather-beaten operation tucked into Scotland's far northern coastline in

A Small-Town Kentucky Distillery Just Made a Big Patriotic Move With Spirit 76 Deep in Logan County, Kentucky, in a town most Americans could not find on a map, a small craft distillery has made one of the more fitting launches of the America250 season. Shawn McCormick, owner and founder of B.H. J