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Brown-Forman Tells Sazerac to Take a Hike — Again In one of the most dramatic corporate standoffs the American spirits industry has seen in years, Brown-Forman Corporation officially rejected a renewed unsolicited takeover bid from Sazerac on Sunday, July 26, 2026, declaring the proposal "not acti

Four Roses Bourbon 100 Proof Hits Bars and Restaurants Across the Country Four Roses has never been a brand that shouts. For most of its modern history, the Lawrenceburg, Kentucky distillery has let its whiskey do the talking — and quietly, it has built one of the most loyal followings in American

Moonshine University Is Closing Its Doors — And What It Means for American Whiskey For fourteen years, a converted building on South 8th Street in Louisville, Kentucky served as something genuinely rare in the American spirits world: a place where anyone with the drive and the tuition could walk i

Old Overholt's Fourth Extra Aged Cask Strength Is the Hottest Limited Rye of 2026 There is a particular kind of satisfaction that comes from watching a brand that spent decades in the shadows finally step into the light — not with gimmicks or celebrity partnerships, but with whiskey that can hold

Cold Spring Hollow Bottles History: How a Pennsylvania Craft Distillery Turned Civil War Tragedy Into Bourbon There is a particular kind of grit embedded in the limestone bedrock of south-central Pennsylvania — a stubbornness that does not announce itself but simply endures. You feel it in the sma

Jameson Irish Whiskey Is Now the NFL's Official Spirits Sponsor — Here's What That Means for the Industry The green bottle has planted its flag at the fifty-yard line. Jameson Irish Whiskey has officially become the NFL's official spirits sponsor, displacing Diageo in one of American sports' most

The Fall of a Giant: Republic National Distributing Company Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy For more than a century, Republic National Distributing Company sat at the beating heart of the American spirits trade — the invisible infrastructure between the distillery and the back bar, between the coo

Vermont Rye Pioneer WhistlePig Officially Joins the Kentucky Distillers' Association For the better part of two decades, WhistlePig Whiskey has existed as something of a deliberate outsider in the American spirits world — a rye-forward rebel operating from a remote farm on the edge of Lake Champla

Bradshaw Bourbon's Three Limited-Edition Summer Packages Are Built for the Backyard There is a particular kind of ambition that runs through Bradshaw Bourbon — one that has little patience for half measures. Bradshaw Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, the brand founded by NFL Hall of Famer Terry B

Garrison Brothers Is Releasing Guadalupe at Cask Strength for the First Time — And It's Raising Money for the Texas Coast Every summer, bourbon drinkers in Texas know to watch the calendar. Garrison Brothers Distillery, the Hill Country operation that has been rewriting what American whiskey can l