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Blended Spirits Are Crashing the American Whiskey Party — and This Time, It's Not a Fluke The American whiskey world has spent the better part of a decade obsessing over single barrels, age statements, and the scarcity game. Allocated bottles disappeared from shelves in hours. Secondary market pri

Pennsylvania Senate Moves to Crown Rye Whiskey as the Official Spirit of the Commonwealth A bill that would make rye whiskey the official state spirit of Pennsylvania cleared its first major legislative hurdle this week, advancing through the State Government Committee and heading to a full Senate

Judge Dismisses Defamation Suit Against Bardstown Bourbon Whistleblower, Deepening Scrutiny of the Distillery's Corporate Culture A Kentucky circuit court judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit that a former Bardstown Bourbon Company executive filed against the whistleblower at the center of a h

The Bourbon Boom Is Over. Now What? For roughly two decades, the American bourbon industry operated with the quiet confidence of a category that could do no wrong. Distilleries expanded. Warehouses filled. Allocated bottles became cultural currency. Tourists flooded into Kentucky to take barrel to

The Biggest Whiskey Market in the World Has Been Almost Off-Limits to American Bourbon. That Could Finally Change. In Washington, the conversations happening right now between American trade officials and their Indian counterparts may carry more weight for the bourbon industry than anything that h

There's a certain kind of whiskey drinker who has tried everything on the shelf twice over, and for that guy, a new bottle from a distillery he already trusts is worth paying attention to. Barton 1792 Distillery, the folks who've been making whiskey in Bardstown, Kentucky since 1879, just rolled ou

Derby Gold in a Bottle: Woodford Reserve and Cherie DeVaux Fuse Racing History with Kentucky Bourbon There is a particular kind of moment when two worlds that have always orbited each other finally collide head-on. On June 26, 2026, inside the stone walls of the Woodford Reserve Distillery in Vers

The $20 Scotch That's Been Beating Bottles Worth Ten Times Its Price There's a particular kind of satisfaction that comes from watching a budget underdog humiliate the establishment, and in the world of Scotch whisky, few stories deliver that satisfaction quite as cleanly as Aldi's Highland Black

Founders Brewing Crosses Into Bourbon Country With Its First-Ever KBS Bourbon For more than two decades, Founders Brewing Co. has occupied a rare space in American craft beer — a brewery whose most celebrated release isn't just beloved, it's genuinely transformative. Kentucky Breakfast Stout, know

Finland Enters the Game: Kyrö Distillery Drops Two House Targaryen Rye Whiskies Most whisky collaborations with major entertainment brands follow a predictable playbook — take an existing expression, slap a recognizable crest on the label, and ship it off to fans who may or may not notice the liqu