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From Orphaned Barrels to Award-Winning Whiskey: Dancing Goat's Stillman's Sonder Is the Release You Haven't Heard Of — Yet There is a particular type of American whiskey story that doesn't begin with a famous family name, a splashy marketing budget, or a distillery with a line of tourists snaking

Tennessee's Craft Distilleries Just Did Something That's Never Been Done Before There is no shortage of limited-edition whiskey releases in America — the market is flooded with them. Single barrels, small batches, age-stated expressions, and celebrity-branded bottles compete for shelf space and wa

Redemption's 18-Year-Old Bourbon Is Back for 2026 — and It's Bringing a Brand-New Bonded Sibling With It When a bourbon earns the kind of critical reception that Redemption's 18-Year-Old received in 2025, the only real question is whether the brand can find enough barrels to do it again. As of mid

Cedar Ridge's 2026 Anniversary Edition Bourbon: Iowa's Most Ambitious Limited Release Yet There's a particular kind of confidence that comes with turning 21. For Cedar Ridge Distillery, Iowa's oldest operating distillery, that milestone isn't just symbolic — it's been distilled into a bottle. The

Kaveh Zamanian Says Bourbon's Reckoning Is Just What the Industry Needs The bourbon industry has spent the better part of two decades operating as though the good times had no ceiling. Production soared, labels multiplied, rickhouses swelled, and every month seemed to bring another craft distiller

Brough Brothers Named Official Bourbon of the Great Steamboat Race — What It Means for Louisville and the Industry Two of Louisville's most storied names have come together in a partnership that feels less like a corporate arrangement and more like a natural extension of the city's DNA. Brough Bro

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