Recent American Single Malt Articles

Brother Justus Drops Founder's Reserve IV: Minnesota's Most Anticipated Whiskey Release Gets Even Better Four years into one of the most quietly compelling limited-release programs in American craft whiskey, Brother Justus Whiskey Company has just dropped its latest entry. The Minneapolis distille

From the Idaho Highlands to the Gulf Coast: Warfield Distillery Brings Its American Single Malt to Sarasota There is a moment that comes to certain people when they step inside a truly exceptional distillery — a moment when the smell of fermenting grain, the copper glow of the stills, and the weig

West of Tradition: How Westland Distillery's New Documentary Reframes the Entire American Single Malt Conversation There's a particular kind of ambition that doesn't announce itself loudly. It just keeps showing up — in the fields, in the stillhouse, in the barrel room — year after year, doing the

Jack Daniel's Brings Its American Single Malt Home — And It's About Time For more than a century and a half, the Jack Daniel Distillery has done things one way: corn-forward mash bill, iron-free cave spring water, and the Lincoln County Process — that slow, deliberate drip through ten feet of suga

Nebraska's Quiet Distillery Just Swept a National Whiskey Competition — and the Industry Should Be Paying Attention There is a certain kind of satisfaction that comes from watching an underdog clean up in a room full of heavyweights. For anyone who follows American craft spirits, the results comin

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 a Scottish Dream to Rocky Mountain Reality: Rick Thomas Distillery Releases Its First Premium Whiskey Black Hawk, Colorado, has always been a place of extraction — gold pulled from its creeks, money pulled from its casino floors. Now, father-and-son distillers Brian and Declan Watts are tryin

Stranahan's Colorado 150: The Pioneers List Honors the Trailblazers Who Shaped the Centennial State There is something fitting about a whiskey distillery — one that spent years being dismissed as an outlier in a bourbon-dominated industry — turning around and honoring the outliers who built Colora

Miles Munroe Leaves Westward Whiskey After 13 Years, Launches Grimoire Spirits The American single malt whiskey category lost one of its most consequential architects last week. Miles Munroe, the master blender who spent thirteen years shaping Westward Whiskey's identity from the inside out, has d