Recent Bourbon Articles

Does Barrel Entry Proof Really Matter? You've probably stood in a liquor store aisle, picked up a bottle of bourbon, flipped it around, and tried to make sense of all the numbers on the label. The bottling proof is right there. The age statement, if you're lucky. But there's one number that almost

Bourbon Worth Slowing Down For Image credit: Flux.1 A guys' trip doesn't have to be about who can drink the most — it can be about drinking better.

Founders Brewing Crosses Into Bourbon Country With Its First-Ever KBS Bourbon For more than two decades, Founders Brewing Co. has occupied a rare space in American craft beer — a brewery whose most celebrated release isn't just beloved, it's genuinely transformative. Kentucky Breakfast Stout, know

Your Milk Frother Makes Better Bourbon Look, we've all been there. You crack open a bottle of bourbon — maybe it's a high-proof bottle you've been eyeballing for a while, maybe it's just your regular Friday night pour — and the first sip hits a little harder than you'd like. There's that sharp alc

Louisville's Premier Whiskey Gathering Is Back: The 4th Annual American Whiskey Festival Set for August 15, 2026 There are whiskey events, and then there are institutions. After three years of steady growth in the heart of Louisville's Norton Commons neighborhood, the American Whiskey Festival has

When Kentucky bourbon and Chinese baijiu collide in the same bottle, the result is something the American whiskey world has never quite seen before. A Kentucky distillery and a Chinese spirit maker have partnered to create a new whiskey that draws from two of the world's most storied distilling tra

Why Wheated Bourbons Are the Dessert Course's Best Friend Image credit: Flux.1 Most bourbons use rye as their secondary grain, delivering a spicy, a

There's a moment when a craft distillery stops being a promising upstart and becomes something the whole country needs to pay attention to. For Woodinville Whiskey Co., that moment may have just arrived. Washington state's largest craft distillery has announced the national rollout of two new r

Heaven Hill Drops the Spring 2026 Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond Decanter: What You Need to Know About the 17th Edition Every year, twice a year, bourbon collectors across the country mark their calendars for one of the most anticipated allocated releases in American whiskey. Heaven Hill Distiller

Fire, Smoke & Bourbon: The Perfect BBQ Pair Let me set the scene for you. It's a Saturday afternoon in July. The smoker's been running since seven in the morning. There's a brisket on that's been going low and slow for about twelve hours. The bark is near-perfect — jet black, cracked at the ed