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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

New Riff's 2026 Headliner: The Most Ambitious Pour Yet From Newport's Most Inventive Distillery Every now and then, a Kentucky craft distillery does something that makes the entire industry stop and pay attention. New Riff Distilling, tucked into Newport on the southern bank of the Ohio River, has

Fireball Is Putting Whisky in Your Shoes: The Story Behind the Brand's Most Outrageous Limited Drop Yet There have been plenty of strange brand collaborations in the spirits world over the years — bourbon-branded beef jerky, whiskey-scented candles, rye-infused hot sauce — but Fireball Cinnamon Wh

There's a certain kind of whiskey drinker who doesn't get excited about another shelf-stable, mass-produced bottle that'll be sitting in the same spot next year. That guy wants something that's actually going to run out. Something with a story attached to it that he can tell his buddies about later

Root Shoot Spirits Drops a Limited Peach Brandy Cask Whiskey That Colorado Won't Forget There are whiskey releases, and then there are whiskey releases that tell a story so deeply rooted in a single place that the liquid inside the bottle almost doesn't need a tasting note — the origin does the ta

There's a particular kind of quiet that happens when a campfire is the only light for miles. The flames throw enough warmth to keep the cold off your shoulders, but just past that circle of orange light, everything goes black. That's where the imagination takes over. Every snapped twig sounds like

For more than a decade, a stash of forgotten whiskey barrels sat quietly aging in Indiana and Wisconsin, waiting for the right people to notice what they had. Now that story is finally being told, and it's one worth pouring a glass over. Dancing Goat Distillery, out of Cambridge, Wisconsin, has