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A Whisky That Started Aging Before the Internet Existed Somewhere in a warehouse in the Scottish Highlands, a cask of whisky has been quietly doing nothing but getting better since 1968. That's the year Richard Nixon was elected president, the first man hadn't yet walked on the moon, and a distill

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

India's Whisky Revolution Gets Its Name: Amrut Distilleries Launches Kranthi Single Malt There's a word in Hindi — kranthi — that carries the weight of upheaval, of tectonic shifts in the way things are done. It means revolution. And when Amrut Distilleries chose it as the name for its newest si

Whiskey House of Kentucky Is Bringing Its Client Brands to Bardstown — and the 2026 Kentucky Bourbon Festival Won't Be the Same Bardstown, Kentucky has been called the Bourbon Capital of the World for good reason, and every September it earns that title all over again. Held September 10–13, 2026,

The Balvenie 88-Year-Old: How a Single Cask Survived Nearly a Century to Become the World's Oldest Scotch On March 5, 1931, a distillery worker at The Balvenie in Dufftown, Scotland, made a routine entry in the handwritten production ledger. European oak sherry butt cask #239, sourced from Jerez,

Two hundred years ago, a man named James Allardice stood on a stretch of Highland farmland known as the Valley of the Brambles and decided he was going to make whisky his way. That decision, made in 1826 on the Boynsmill Estate in Scotland, would eventually grow into The Glendronach, a distillery t

Two Friends From Dublin Bet on an Empty Stretch of Miracle Mile Back in 1989, Coral Gables didn't really have a place where people could just walk in, grab a pint, and talk to whoever happened to be sitting next to them. John Clarke and Martin Lynch noticed that gap and decided to fill it. The two