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Is Pappy Van Winkle Really Worth the Hype? There's a good chance you've never tasted Pappy Van Winkle. There's an even better chance you've heard someone talk about it like it's the liquid equivalent of the Holy Grail. That one buddy who swears he had a pour at a dive bar in Louisville back in 200

Woodford Reserve Distillery Series Red Corn: The Heirloom Grain Bourbon That Almost Wasn't There is a moment in every great bourbon's story where something goes sideways — where nature, timing, or circumstance conspires against a distillery's best intentions — and the whiskey that eventually makes

Bourbon Meets the Subcontinent: Why America's Native Spirit Is the Ultimate Companion to Spicy Indian Street Food There is a particular kind of culinary discovery that hits differently than anything you planned. It does not happen at a tasting menu restaurant with a sommelier holding your hand. It

Milam & Greene's Unabridged Volume 4 Earns Double Platinum at the ASCOT Awards There's a craft distillery sitting in Blanco, Texas — a small Hill Country town about 80 miles outside Austin — that has been quietly building one of the more impressive award records in American whiskey. Milam &amp

Expert Approved Bourbons Between $10 and $20 Image credit: OpenAI Bourbon has long been considered one of the most accessible whiskey categories in

There are bourbon releases, and then there are releases that make you stop and pay attention. Koopers Whiskey, the family-owned Texas brand out of Ledbetter, is doing the latter with their Father's Office Cigar Blend Straight Bourbon Whiskey — a limited-edition bottle that brings together two of th

The City That Invented the Drink Knows How to Celebrate It Louisville, Kentucky has never been shy about its relationship with bourbon. The city that sits at the heart of America's whiskey country has built an entire identity around the spirit, and every June, that identity gets put on full displa

The story behind Big Blaze Bourbon is as remarkable as what's inside the bottle Most award-winning bourbons come with a backstory about heritage, family recipes, or some remote grain source. Big Blaze Bourbon from Denver-based Locke + Co. Distillery comes with something entirely different — the

The Second Wildlife Collection Release Has Arrived — And There Are Only 180 Bottles Some bourbons get made. Others get earned. The Live Oak Straight Bourbon from Milam & Greene falls squarely into the second category. The Texas distillery just dropped the second release in its Wildlife Collect

Barrell Craft Spirits has never been one to do things halfway, and their latest release makes that clearer than ever. The Louisville-based independent blender just announced Barrell Bourbon Batch 038, a limited-release blend that pulls mature straight bourbon whiskeys from four different states and