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A New Tool Built for the Small Guys in a Big Industry Running a craft distillery is not for the faint of heart. Between permits, aging barrels, and trying to get a bottle onto a liquor store shelf next to the big national brands, small distillers rarely have time to dig through spreadsheets and ma

Still In Cask Opens the World's First Peer-to-Peer Exchange for Whisky Cask Shares — And the Implications Run Deep For most of whisky's long, storied history, the barrier between an enthusiast and a barrel of maturing spirit has been simple and brutal: money. Lots of it. A whole cask from a reputa

India Stakes Its Claim: The IMWA's New Certification Trademark Is the Most Important Move Indian Whisky Has Ever Made For years, American whisky enthusiasts who ventured beyond Scotch and Japanese single malts were confronted with a category that felt simultaneously exciting and chaotic — Indian s

Karuizawa Distillers Breaks Ground on Furaliss, Its Second Distillery — and the Most Ambitious Bet Yet in Japanese Whisky The Japanese whisky world has been on a sustained upward trajectory for years, drawing collectors, drinkers, and investors from across the globe. But few companies have moved w

Maker's Mark Takes Bourbon to New Heights With Its Perfectly Unreasonable Bar Atop Aspen Mountain There is a certain breed of bourbon drinker who isn't satisfied unless the experience surrounding the pour is every bit as memorable as what's in the glass. Maker's Mark, the 73-year-old Kentucky inst

The Receiver Fires Back: Inside Uncle Nearest's Stunning Counterclaim Against Farm Credit Mid-America What began as a straightforward, if brutal, lender enforcement action has taken a turn that almost nobody saw coming. The court-appointed receiver overseeing the battered Uncle Nearest whiskey emp

The 4th Annual American Whiskey Festival Is Headed Back to Louisville — And It's Bigger Than Ever Louisville has never needed much of an excuse to throw a whiskey party, but Watch Hill Proper has been giving the city a particularly good one every August. Watch Hill Proper will host the 4th Annual

Bacardi Goes All In: The Spirits Giant Completes Full Acquisition of Teeling Irish Whiskey For nine years, the relationship between Bacardi Limited and the Teeling Whiskey Company operated like a slow burn — a minority stake here, a majority share there, a gradual tightening of the grip until, on

Alan Jackson's Silverbelly Whiskey Is Now Offering Newlyweds a Personal Gift — Straight From Alan Himself Alan Jackson has spent more than three decades writing songs about love, marriage, and the kind of life worth celebrating. Now, through his Silverbelly Whiskey brand, he's turning that ethos i

Whiskey Thief Distilling Bets $2 Million on NuLu: A Craft Distillery Puts Down Permanent Roots in Louisville When a small craft distillery reaches into its pocket for a $2 million real estate purchase, it is not making a cautious, hedging move. It is making a declaration. Whiskey Thief Distilling