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When Trade Wars Come for the Whiskey Shelf: How Canada's Ban on American Spirits Is Reshaping the Brown Liquor Landscape There is a particular kind of dissonance that hits you when you walk into a government liquor store and find a wall of empty shelving where the bourbon used to be. No Jim Beam.

The 2026 North American Bourbon and Whiskey Competition: Everything You Need to Know About the 12th Annual Showdown Every summer, when the heat builds over Colorado's Front Range and the bourbon industry's attention turns toward the Rocky Mountains, one competition quietly assembles the most rigor

Jim Beam is opening up its home turf to podcasters, musicians, filmmakers and other creators, and the invitation comes from a place most people never get to see up close. James B. Beam Distilling Co., the company behind Jim Beam, Knob Creek and Basil Hayden, just announced a new program called Cre

An Ohio Brewery Owner, a Copper Pot Still, and the Future of Federal Power It is not every day that a man's desire to make a small batch of bourbon at home winds up at the steps of the United States Supreme Court. But John Ream, an accomplished aerospace engineer and brewery owner from Ohio, would

From Distillery Floor to Skin Care Shelf: How Scotch Whisky Waste Is Reinventing the Cosmetics Supply Chain Every year, Scotland's whisky industry generates millions of liters of spent liquid and spent grain — the inevitable byproduct of distilling one of the world's most celebrated spirits. For m

There are certain titles in American whiskey that show up every autumn like an old friend — reliable, admired, almost taken for granted by those who follow the category closely enough. George T. Stagg is one of them. And yet, no matter how many times that dark bottle from Frankfort, Kentucky, steps

Westminster Steps In: UK Parliament Launches Full Scotch Whisky Inquiry as Industry Faces Crisis on Multiple Fronts The United Kingdom's Scottish Affairs Committee has thrown the full weight of parliamentary scrutiny behind one of Britain's most celebrated industries. The Scottish Affairs Committe

Crown Royal's "Bring It" Campaign Puts a Niagara Country Artist at the Center of a Major Whisky Push When Crown Royal decides to launch a new brand platform, it goes big. The Diageo-owned Canadian whisky giant did exactly that this summer, unveiling "Bring It" — a sweeping national campaign built

Bourbon doesn't get much respect out west. Everybody knows Kentucky owns the category, and for good reason — that's where the tradition runs deepest. But a distillery in Centennial, Colorado has been quietly stacking up 17 awards since 2019 for a bourbon that has nothing to do with Kentucky limesto

NASCAR just teamed up with a vodka brand, and if you follow racing, this one actually makes sense once you look at where the vodka comes from and what it stands for. The sanctioning body announced a new multi-year partnership with Wheatley American Vodka on August 4, 2026, naming it the Officia