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Root Shoot's Six-Year Bottled-in-Bond Marks 100 Years
Root Shoot Spirits Drops Its Most Ambitious Whiskey Yet: A Six-Year Bottled-in-Bond Colorado Single Malt There are craft distilleries, and then there are operations like Root Shoot Spirits — the kind of place where the grain in your glass grew in a field you could drive past on a county road just
Uncle Nearest's Restaurant Debt and Expanding Legal War
When the Barrel House Goes Broke: Uncle Nearest's Restaurant Debt and the Expanding Legal War The story of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey has always been bigger than whiskey. It was built on the recovered legacy of Nathan "Nearest" Green, acknowledged in 2016 as the first African-American master di
Chattanooga Whiskey's Bottled in Bond Fall 2022 Vintage Reviewed
Chattanooga Whiskey's Bottled in Bond Fall 2022 Vintage Is a Masterclass in Mash Bill Archaeology Most distilleries treat "bottled in bond" like a finish line — get the whiskey to four years, hit 100 proof, slap a label on it, and collect the prestige that comes with a designation born from an 189
New Era Whiskey Opens Lexington's First Distillery Social Club
New Era Whiskey Opens a Distillery and Social Club in Downtown Lexington — And It's Already Changing the Bourbon Tourism Map On the morning of September 2, 2026, a ribbon was cut on East Short Street in Lexington, Kentucky, and with it came the formal arrival of a brand whose origin story sounds m
Heaven Hill's Historic Bourbon Deal with Kentucky Wildcats
Heaven Hill and the Wildcats: Inside the Boldest Bourbon-Athletics Deal in College Sports For decades, the connection between bourbon and the University of Kentucky was the kind of thing that lived in tailgate coolers and postgame toasts rather than official press releases. On September 3, 2026, t
2XO and Sugarhill Gang Blend Hip-Hop History Into Bourbon
2XO Whiskey and the Sugarhill Gang Drop "Rapper's Delight" — The Hip-Hop Blend That Was Decades in the Making Some product collaborations feel forced — a celebrity face slapped on a label, a licensing deal engineered purely for press. Then there are the ones that make a kind of instinctive sense,
Tamworth Distilling's Venison Whiskey Defies Convention
The Deerslayer: Tamworth Distilling's Venison Whiskey Is the Most Audacious Bottle to Come Out of New England There is a well-worn tradition in American whiskey of pushing against convention — of daring the drinker to reconsider what a spirit can be. Rye mash bills, barrel finishing, cask strength
Amrut Kranthi: India's First Non-Chill Filtered Single Malt
Amrut Kranthi: India's First Non-Chill Filtered Single Malt Has Arrived — And It's Only $39.99 There's a word that keeps surfacing in conversations about the global whisky industry lately, and it isn't "Scotch." It isn't "bourbon," either. It's "India." For the better part of two decades, Amrut Di
Black Velvet Whisky Turns 75 Amid Canada-U.S. Trade War
A 75th Birthday Party With a Dark Cloud Overhead: Black Velvet Whisky and the Canada-U.S. Trade War There are not many ways to celebrate a 75th anniversary in the whisky business that feel genuinely earned. Decades of grain, water, oak, and patience stack up behind every milestone, and the Lethbri
Why the American Whiskey Doom Narrative Gets It Wrong
Lawson Whiting's Parting Shot: Why the American Whiskey 'Doom' Narrative Gets It Wrong There is a version of the American whiskey story being told right now in trade publications, on analyst calls, and in the back rooms of distributors across the country that goes something like this: the boom is
