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Somewhere in the archive at Midleton Distillery in County Cork, there is a small pocket notebook. It is dated 1826, and the handwriting inside belongs to John Jameson II. On one of the pages is a mashbill — the recipe for what went into the still. That scrap of two-hundred-year-old bookkeeping is t

Smokeye Hill's Blended Rye Takes Double Platinum — And Raises Some Important Questions Colorado Springs doesn't exactly roll off the tongue when the conversation turns to great American rye whiskey. Kentucky and Indiana dominate that conversation, with Tennessee occasionally muscling in. But Smoke

India's Food Safety Regulator Drops the Hammer on Diageo — and the Ripples Reach Every Bottle on the Shelf For decades, the global spirits industry has treated India as the great frontier — a billion-plus consumers, a rapidly expanding middle class, and a domestic whisky culture so enormous it dwa

CaskdAI Is Here: A Purpose-Built Artificial Intelligence for Scotch Whisky Collectors Just Changed the Game The Scotch whisky world has always rewarded the patient, the well-informed, and the obsessive. Knowing the difference between an Oloroso-matured Speyside expression and a refill hogshead bot

Sato Shiki Launches the Masterpiece PX: Japanese Whisky's Most Ambitious Expression Yet There is a category of whisky release that demands more than a simple tasting note. It demands context — the weight of history, the logic of geography, the deliberate arc of a distillery's ambition. Sato Shiki'

Stranahan's Just Did Something No Colorado Distillery Has Ever Done Before There are releases, and then there are statements. What Stranahan's American Single Malt Whiskey has just announced lands firmly in the second category. The Denver distillery — the same operation that has spent two decades

From Blasting Caps to Bourbon Barrels: Powdermen Spirits Plants Its Flag in Windsor, Connecticut There is a specific kind of stubbornness that separates a hobbyist who dreams about distilling from someone who actually builds a distillery. Frank Lucca belongs firmly in the second category — and now

Brown-Forman Tells Sazerac to Take a Hike — Again In one of the most dramatic corporate standoffs the American spirits industry has seen in years, Brown-Forman Corporation officially rejected a renewed unsolicited takeover bid from Sazerac on Sunday, July 26, 2026, declaring the proposal "not acti

India's Single Malt Revolution: Half a Million Cases, 22 Percent Growth, and a Category That's Rewriting the Global Whisky Map For decades, serious whisky drinkers in America looked to Scotland, Japan, or Kentucky when they wanted something worth thinking about. India barely registered as a blip o

Pearse Lyons Distillery Unveils The Camino Collection: Irish Whiskey's Most Spiritually Charged Single Cask Series There are whiskey releases, and then there are moments that crystallize everything a distillery stands for. The Camino Collection from Pearse Lyons Distillery is decidedly the latter.