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The Barrel Is Full, the Market Is Empty: How America's Whiskey Debt Crisis Got Here Walk into any rickhouse in Kentucky or Tennessee right now and you will find an industry that has been quietly holding its breath. Millions of gallons of American whiskey are resting in white oak barrels, waiting t

In the American whiskey world, geography is everything — until it isn't. WhistlePig, the Vermont-based rye house that has spent nearly two decades writing its own rules from a 500-acre farm in Shoreham, has now planted its flag in the very heart of bourbon country. The opening of The WhistlePig Vau

Tennessee Hills Distillery Named Official Spirits Partner of TN250 — And Its First Whiskey Is the One the State Wanted in the Bottle There are roughly 100 distilleries operating across Tennessee, each with a story to tell about heritage, craft, and the land underfoot. Only one of them got the phon

WhistlePig Takes Its Rye-for-America Case to New York — and the Nation On the evening of Wednesday, June 17, a select group of guests gathered in New York City for something that blended history lesson with dinner party: an intimate private event hosted by WhistlePig Whiskey, the Vermont-based rye

Pennsylvania Senate Moves to Crown Rye Whiskey as the Official Spirit of the Commonwealth A bill that would make rye whiskey the official state spirit of Pennsylvania cleared its first major legislative hurdle this week, advancing through the State Government Committee and heading to a full Senate

The Bourbon Boom Is Over. Now What? For roughly two decades, the American bourbon industry operated with the quiet confidence of a category that could do no wrong. Distilleries expanded. Warehouses filled. Allocated bottles became cultural currency. Tourists flooded into Kentucky to take barrel to

The Biggest Whiskey Market in the World Has Been Almost Off-Limits to American Bourbon. That Could Finally Change. In Washington, the conversations happening right now between American trade officials and their Indian counterparts may carry more weight for the bourbon industry than anything that h

Miles Munroe Leaves Westward Whiskey After 13 Years, Launches Grimoire Spirits The American single malt whiskey category lost one of its most consequential architects last week. Miles Munroe, the master blender who spent thirteen years shaping Westward Whiskey's identity from the inside out, has d

Jefferson's Bourbon Drops Founder's Reserve 20-Year: A 250-Bottle Salute to America's 250th Birthday Some bourbon releases arrive with a quiet dignity that only time can manufacture. Jefferson's Bourbon's new Founder's Reserve 20-Year-Old is one of those bottles — not loud, not overproduced, but u

Montana's Oldest Distillery Marks America's 250th Birthday With a Five-Year Bourbon Built for the Moment Not every anniversary bottle deserves serious attention. The spirits industry has a long history of slapping a commemorative label on an existing product and calling it a limited release. What