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There's a moment in every underdog story where you stop and ask yourself whether what just happened was real. For Onyx & Amber, that moment came at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, when Copper Buffalo was named the World's Best American Style Whiskey at the 2026 World Whiskies Awards —

St. Patrick's Day is the kind of holiday that separates the people who actually care about what's in their glass from the ones who just grab whatever's closest to the register. This year, Proper No. Twelve Irish Whiskey is making that choice a whole lot easier with the arrival of Proper No. Twelve

A five-year veteran of Bardstown Bourbon Company's leadership team is taking the Kentucky whiskey giant to court, and the allegations she's brought with her paint a troubling picture of what she says was happening behind the scenes at one of the most well-known names in American bourbon. Sylvia

There are spirits that get made because someone spotted a gap in the market. And then there are spirits that get made because someone had something to say. Freyja's Gift, the latest release from Texas-based Two Souls Spirits, falls squarely into the second category — and the story behind it is wort

Heaven Hill had a night to remember on February 12 at The Brown Hotel in Louisville, walking away from the 2026 World Whiskies Awards America and Icons of Whisky America ceremony with more hardware than any other name in the room. For a company that has been quietly stacking wins for years, this la

Jon Taffer has been fixing broken bars on television for years, but now he's got something else on his mind — getting his bourbon into the hands of Georgia drinkers. Taffer's Browned Butter Bourbon is officially launching across the state, and for anyone who has been curious about what the "Bar Res

There is a modest building in Vergennes, Vermont, where two people are trying to change the way America thinks about whiskey. Not by distilling it themselves, but by driving across the country, tasting thousands of barrels, and picking out the ones they believe deserve more attention. That is the s

For years, the name Black Maple Hill has floated around whiskey circles like a ghost story that everybody swears is true. Collectors hunted for it. Forums debated it. Old bottles changed hands for ridiculous sums. And then, for a long stretch, it just wasn't around anymore. The kind of bourbon that

The American single malt category has been picking up steam for years now, quietly building a reputation that puts it shoulder to shoulder with scotch and bourbon on the global stage. But every once in a while, a bottle comes along that forces the whisky world to sit up and pay real attention. That

The little brewery in the little town just made a very big move. Shiner, the Texas outfit that built its name on Bock and never left the small town where it started, dropped its first-ever rye whiskey on Valentine's Day. No roses, no chocolate — just a cask-strength rye bottled at a walloping 1