Recent American Whiskey Articles

Aperol Is Carrying Campari's Weight as Wild Turkey Stumbles in a Broken Bourbon Market There was a time, not so long ago, when bourbon could do no wrong inside a corporate spirits portfolio. A bottle of Wild Turkey on the balance sheet was a license to print money. Premium American whiskey was the

A Midwest Craft Distillery Steps Into the National Spotlight: Pound & Penny Spirits Names BLACK BAND Its Exclusive Bourbon Partner In a move that underscores the growing appetite among craft spirits producers to pair serious production credentials with sophisticated commercial muscle, Pound &a

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

Moonshine University Is Closing Its Doors — And What It Means for American Whiskey For fourteen years, a converted building on South 8th Street in Louisville, Kentucky served as something genuinely rare in the American spirits world: a place where anyone with the drive and the tuition could walk i

The 2026 North American Bourbon and Whiskey Competition: Everything You Need to Know About the 12th Annual Showdown Every summer, when the heat builds over Colorado's Front Range and the bourbon industry's attention turns toward the Rocky Mountains, one competition quietly assembles the most rigor

The Fall of "The People's CEO": How Fawn Weaver Lost the Whiskey Empire She Built There is a particular cruelty to watching someone be separated from the thing they created. For Fawn Weaver, that moment arrived quietly on June 1, 2026 — not with a press release or a public statement, but with a te

Uncle Nearest's Martha's Vineyard Property Finds a New Buyer — But the Road There Was Anything But Smooth The story of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey has always carried a particular American weight — a brand built on the legacy of Nearest Green, the man history credits with teaching Jack Daniel how

The Fall of a Giant: Republic National Distributing Company Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy For more than a century, Republic National Distributing Company sat at the beating heart of the American spirits trade — the invisible infrastructure between the distillery and the back bar, between the coo

The Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame's 2026 Class Is Its Most Diverse Yet — and One Name Will Surprise You Every September, the bourbon industry gathers its legends, its lifers, and its rising voices to honor the people who have bent the arc of American whiskey history. This year, the Kentucky Distil

Washington Fires Back: The CANADA Act and the Fight to Reclaim America's Most Important Whiskey Market For more than sixteen months, a half-empty shelf at a Toronto LCBO has functioned as the most vivid symbol of a trade war that most bourbon drinkers never saw coming. Where Jack Daniel's and Mich