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Indiana Fever and Cedar Ridge Bourbon Collaboration Explained
Iowa Meets Indiana: Cedar Ridge Distillery and the Fever Drop a Bourbon That Goes Beyond the Final Buzzer There is a certain kind of partnership that makes immediate sense the moment it is announced — two organizations operating at a similar frequency, drawing from the same well of regional identi
The American Distillery Bringing Irish Pot Still Whiskey to the US
A Pub in Galway, a Bartender's Story, and an American Distillery Born From Obsession There are origin stories, and then there are the kinds of stories that change the entire trajectory of a person's life. For Patrick and Meagan Miller, it happened in 2011 at a pub in Galway, Ireland, during the Ir
Bradshaw Bourbon Wins Best in Show at WSWA Competition
Bradshaw Bourbon's "Best in Show" Win Is No Celebrity Stunt — It's the Real Deal There is a particular brand of skepticism that greets any bottle bearing a celebrity's name. The sports fan in the liquor aisle eyes the label, clocks the famous face, and assumes the liquid inside is secondary to the
Four Roses 100 Proof Bourbon Targets Bars Nationwide
Four Roses Bourbon 100 Proof Hits Bars and Restaurants Across the Country Four Roses has never been a brand that shouts. For most of its modern history, the Lawrenceburg, Kentucky distillery has let its whiskey do the talking — and quietly, it has built one of the most loyal followings in American
Moonshine University Is Closing: What It Means for Craft Whiskey
Moonshine University Is Closing Its Doors — And What It Means for American Whiskey For fourteen years, a converted building on South 8th Street in Louisville, Kentucky served as something genuinely rare in the American spirits world: a place where anyone with the drive and the tuition could walk i
Canada's Ban on American Spirits Is Reshaping Whiskey Sales
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.
Inside the 12th Annual North American Bourbon Competition
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 Opens Its Doors to Creators
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
Ohio Man Takes Home Distilling Ban to Supreme Court
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
Scotch Whisky Waste Is Now Becoming Luxury Skin Care
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
