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Old Elk Drops a Trio of 10-Year-Old Whiskeys — and the Timing Couldn't Be More Loaded Fort Collins, Colorado has always been an unlikely headquarters for serious American whiskey. The city spent the better part of a century under self-imposed prohibition — between 1896 and 1969, it prohibited the

Somewhere in the archive at Midleton Distillery in County Cork, there is a small pocket notebook. It is dated 1826, and the handwriting inside belongs to John Jameson II. On one of the pages is a mashbill — the recipe for what went into the still. That scrap of two-hundred-year-old bookkeeping is t

There's a version of the bottled-in-bond story where a brand simply does the minimum — four years in the barrel, 100 proof in the bottle, a single distillery and a single season — and calls it a day. Bib & Tucker's first entry into the bonded category isn't that. The Tennessee small-batch b

Deanston Brings Andalucía to America: The Orange Wine Cask 17-Year-Old Hits U.S. Shelves There are whisky releases built around marketing concepts, and then there are the ones rooted in something genuinely personal — where the cask, the spirit, and the person who put them together share a single t

Smoke has been hanging over Eastern Washington for weeks now, and the Spokane Complex Fire is still burning. For the people living out there, the damage isn't measured in acres. It's measured in houses that aren't there anymore, in medications left behind, in a truck that got too close to the flame

Bourbon doesn't get much respect out west. Everybody knows Kentucky owns the category, and for good reason — that's where the tradition runs deepest. But a distillery in Centennial, Colorado has been quietly stacking up 17 awards since 2019 for a bourbon that has nothing to do with Kentucky limesto

There's something fitting about a bourbon coming out of Wyoming to mark 250 years of the country's independence. The state itself wasn't even part of the original union — it didn't join until 1890, becoming the 44th state to sign on. But if there's one place in America that still runs on the same s

Old Grand-Dad Is Back: The Second Batch of Its 7-Year Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon Has Arrived If you've been following what James B. Beam Distilling Co. has been quietly doing with its portfolio of historic, once-overlooked labels, the arrival of the second annual batch of Old Grand-Dad 7-Year Bottled

From a Scottish Dream to Rocky Mountain Reality: Rick Thomas Distillery Releases Its First Premium Whiskey Black Hawk, Colorado, has always been a place of extraction — gold pulled from its creeks, money pulled from its casino floors. Now, father-and-son distillers Brian and Declan Watts are tryin

Rare Find Puts Glenglassaugh Through Three Cask Finishes — and the Results Are Worth Hunting Down There is a particular kind of release in the independent bottling world that does more than add another expression to a shelf. It makes an argument — about a distillery's range, about the science of f