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A rough start to 2026 for American spirits sales — and the numbers tell a complicated story The first month of 2026 handed the American spirits industry something it did not want to see: a broad, across-the-board sales slump that hit nearly every category and showed few signs of a quick recovery.

There's a version of this story where a brewery best known for a German-Czech lager tries its hand at whiskey and falls flat on its face. That's not this story. Shiner's Texas Legend Rye — bottled from just three barrels of the distillery's very first rye distillation — is a two-year-old whiskey th

For the second year running, Redbreast Irish Whiskey is making its presence felt at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin, Texas — and this time, the stakes are higher for the filmmakers hoping to catch a break. The brand's Redbreast Unhidden initiative, now in its sophomore year, is back w

The numbers don't lie. In less than a year, one of the most reliable foreign markets for American whiskey has virtually disappeared — and the damage is still mounting. U.S. spirits exports to Canada collapsed by nearly 70 percent, falling from roughly $250 million annually to just $89 million,

Lost Lantern, the Vermont-based independent bottler that has quietly become one of the more respected names in American whiskey, is stepping into a debate that has been brewing in tasting rooms and online forums for years: does proof actually change what you taste in a glass of whiskey, and if so,

Barrell Craft Spirits has never been a company that plays it safe. Since launching in Louisville, Kentucky back in 2013, the independent blender has built a reputation on doing things differently — sourcing aged whiskeys from across the country, blending them with precision, and finishing them in w

There's a distillery in Macon, Georgia doing something no one else in the spirits business is doing quite like this. Every bottle of bourbon, vodka, or gin that walks out the door from Longleaf Distilling Co. comes with a promise — a tree gets planted. Not a donation to some vague environmental f

There are plenty of whiskey releases that come and go every year, most of them forgettable. Every now and then, though, a distillery puts something out that actually means something — both in the glass and beyond it. New Riff Distilling's latest Silver Grove release is one of those. The Newport

Jack Daniel's and McLaren Are Celebrating Big Milestones With a Bottle Worth Tracking Down Two names that have no business being in the same sentence somehow make perfect sense together. Jack Daniel's, the Tennessee whiskey that has been coming out of Lynchburg for a century and a half, and McLare

There are celebrity partnerships, and then there are ones that actually make sense. Karen Gillan becoming the face of Compass Box Hedonism falls squarely into the second category. The Scottish actress — best known to Marvel fans as Nebula and to a generation of Doctor Who devotees as Amy Pond —