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Breckenridge Distillery Taps Colorado's Most Famous Fruit for a New Peach Whiskey There is a short window every year when the Grand Valley of western Colorado produces something genuinely singular — a peach so sweet, so fragrant, and so unmistakably regional that it has built its own cult followin

Angel's Envy Goes Where No Bourbon Has Gone Before: Stout Barrels, Brazilian Wood, and a Distillery-Only Drop There are distilleries that experiment. And then there is Angel's Envy — a Louisville operation that has made a genuine art form out of putting bourbon into barrels and vessels that have n

Circle City Whiskey Co. Takes Its 50/50 Club to the Midwest — and the Industry Is Paying Attention There is a particular kind of credibility that only comes from obsession. Not marketing dollars, not distillery tourism, not a famous founder's last name stamped on the label — just the accumulated t

From the Shadows of Contract Distilling to the Kentucky Bourbon Festival Stage: Jackson Purchase Makes Its Move There is a particular kind of credibility that only comes from decades of doing the work quietly, without fanfare, without a gift shop, without a story manufactured for tourists. Jackson

Jack Daniel's Tennessee Blackberry Is More Than a Flavored Whiskey — It's a Business Lifeline In the summer of 2025, the Jack Daniel Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee did something that raised eyebrows among traditionalists and sparked genuine curiosity among everyday drinkers: it dropped a black

Carolina Whiskey Is Having Its Moment — and the Industry Is Paying Attention The American whiskey map has long been drawn with two thick lines: one through the limestone-rich bluegrass of Kentucky, and another cutting across Tennessee. For generations, those two regions absorbed virtually all the

After 111 Years of Silence, H. Obernauer & Co. Is Coming Back to Pittsburgh There are whiskey brands that fade quietly — discontinued, consolidated, absorbed into some corporate portfolio, their names surviving only on antique bottle labels tucked in the back of a collector's cabinet. And then

Whiskey House of Kentucky Earns A2LA Accreditation, Notches Fourth ISO Certification in Two Years In an industry where tradition still largely governs quality assurance, Whiskey House of Kentucky has taken an unmistakably different path. On August 10, 2026, the Elizabethtown distillery announced i

Next Century Spirits Acquires Chicken Cock Whiskey and the Entire Grain & Barrel Brand Portfolio A North Carolina-based spirits company that has spent the better part of a decade quietly assembling one of the more aggressive brand portfolios in the American spirits industry just made its most

Jeptha Creed's Bruce's Blue Bourbon Is the Most Personal Bottle They've Ever Made There is a particular kind of ambition at work in Shelbyville, Kentucky, one that predates the modern craft distillery boom by several farming generations. At Jeptha Creed Distillery, the idea has always been simple