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Atlanta's Shortbarrel Drops Its Most Ambitious Cigar Batch Yet — 50-Plus Casks, Five Finishing Types, and One Sherry-Led Showstopper There's a certain overlap in the Venn diagram of men who appreciate a well-constructed cigar and men who seek out serious American whiskey. Shortbarrel, the Atlanta-

Old Forester's 2026 Birthday Bourbon Arrives With a Twist — And a Jacket to Match Every September 2nd, something happens in American bourbon culture that is equal parts ritual and religion. The date belongs to Old Forester. It always has. Birthday Bourbon is released annually in recognition of the

Town Branch Drops Imperium MMXXVI: The Most Powerful Entry Yet in Lexington's Most Anticipated Annual Series September is the month that belongs to bourbon. Officially recognized as Bourbon Heritage Month, it is when distilleries across Kentucky reach into their deepest reserves, pull out the barr

A New Standard for American Whiskey Knowledge: Inside the Launch of American Whiskey Scholars The American whiskey world has never lacked for passionate drinkers. What it has lacked — at least in any formally credentialed, broadly accessible way — is a rigorous educational framework that treats bo

DISCUS Takes the Fight to Austin: Why Private-Label Spirits Transparency Is Now a Texas Senate Issue On September 15, 2026, the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States brought one of the spirits industry's quieter but increasingly consequential debates directly to the Texas Senate Committee

West of Tradition: How Westland Distillery's New Documentary Reframes the Entire American Single Malt Conversation There's a particular kind of ambition that doesn't announce itself loudly. It just keeps showing up — in the fields, in the stillhouse, in the barrel room — year after year, doing the

Larrikin Bourbon Co. Brings the Australia Series to the 2026 Kentucky Bourbon Festival — and It's as Wild as It Sounds There are craft bourbon releases, and then there are moments that make you stop and genuinely ask whether what you're reading is real. Larrikin Bourbon Co.'s Australia Series fall

Starlight Distillery's 10-Year Mizunara Reserve: The Rarest Bottle to Come Out of Southern Indiana When a craft distillery pulls a decade-aged bourbon from a single cask of centuries-old Japanese oak, limits the release to 250 bottles, and puts it through a lottery, it tends to get people's attent

Jack Daniel's Brings Its American Single Malt Home — And It's About Time For more than a century and a half, the Jack Daniel Distillery has done things one way: corn-forward mash bill, iron-free cave spring water, and the Lincoln County Process — that slow, deliberate drip through ten feet of suga

An Official Category, an Uncertain Road: Where American Single Malt Stands Now When the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau published its final rule on December 18, 2024, American single malt whiskey became something it had never legally been before: a recognized, defined, protected category