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Every year around this time, beer drinkers who know what's good start marking their calendars for one thing: the return of Bourbon County Brand Stout. Goose Island Beer Co. has now made it official, announcing the full 2026 Bourbon County Brand Stout family lineup that will hit shelves on Black Fri

Virginia Raises a Glass to 250 Years: The Story Behind the Most Historically Loaded Spirits Release of 2026 In the spring of 2026, while the rest of the country was busy planning parades and fireworks, nine Virginia craft distilleries quietly did something far more deliberate — they went back to t

The Uncle Nearest Lawsuit Just Got a Whole Lot More Complicated What started as a straightforward — if brutal — secured lending dispute has exploded into something far messier, and far more revealing about the inner workings of one of American whiskey's most celebrated brands. The court-appointed

The Fall of an American Whiskey Icon: How Uncle Nearest Went from Billion-Dollar Darling to Courtroom Battleground For a few shining years, Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey looked like one of the most remarkable success stories in the history of American spirits. Built on the recovered legacy of a fo

Garrison Brothers Is Dropping Laguna Madre on August 8 — and This Year It Comes With a Cask Strength First Mark August 8 on your calendar and plan for an early start. On Saturday, August 8, 2026, Garrison Brothers, the first and oldest legal whiskey distillery in Texas, will release one of its mos

Taiwan Wins Again: Kavalan Takes Back-to-Back Whisky of the Year at the 2026 International Whisky Competition When the International Whisky Competition announced its 2026 results on July 7, the envelope might as well have been addressed to Yilan County before it was ever opened. For the second con

Nashville Barrel Company Plants Its Flag in Bourbon Country with the Louisville Rickhouse Whiskey Company There is a particular kind of audacity in a Tennessee whiskey outfit walking into Louisville, Kentucky — the undisputed seat of American bourbon culture — and opening up shop. Nashville Barrel

Glenglassaugh Drops a 15-Year-Old Single Malt — and It's Nothing Like the 12 There are distilleries that grow old quietly, adding age statements the way a craftsman adds tools to his bench — methodically, purposefully, one at a time. Then there's Glenglassaugh, a coastal Highland operation that ha

Kentucky Bourbon Trail Hits 74 Stops: The Biggest Expansion Yet Reshapes America's Premier Whiskey Tourism Experience The Kentucky Bourbon Trail just got a whole lot longer. The Kentucky Distillers' Association announced this week that four new destinations have joined the legendary self-guided to

Washington Fires Back: The CANADA Act and the Fight to Reclaim America's Most Important Whiskey Market For more than sixteen months, a half-empty shelf at a Toronto LCBO has functioned as the most vivid symbol of a trade war that most bourbon drinkers never saw coming. Where Jack Daniel's and Mich