Recent Bourbon Articles

Tennessee Whiskey vs. Bourbon: Does It Really Matter? A few years back, I was at a backyard cookout in Nashville — the kind where there's a folding table with a half-dozen bottles lined up and somebody's already arguing about football before the burgers are even off the grill. I reached for what I

Bourbons That Pair Perfectly With a Cigar After Dinner Image credit: Flux.1 Few rituals in the world of spirits feel as deliberately indulgent as se

The Bourbon Old Fashioned: America's Most Perfect Cocktail There is no cocktail in the American canon that has earned more loyalty, sparked more arguments, or been more consistently misunderstood than the Old Fashioned. It sits at the center of bourbon culture the way a hearth sits at the center o

Best Bourbons for Drinking on a Porch in Summer Image credit: Flux.1 There's a particular kind of magic that happens when warm evening air, a creaki

Old Forester President's Choice Goes National: America's Most Storied Distillery Just Changed the Rules For the better part of seven years, the only way to get your hands on a bottle of Old Forester President's Choice was to make a pilgrimage. You had to show up, in person, at the distillery on Lo

Black Maple Hill Is Back — and This Time, It Means Business There are bourbon brands, and then there are bourbon legends. Black Maple Hill occupies that second, rarer category — a name that spent years as shorthand among serious American whiskey drinkers for what the country's finest barrels could

Buffalo Trace: Why America Can't Get Enough There are bourbons people drink, and then there are bourbons people chase . Buffalo Trace bourbon whiskey sits firmly, almost stubbornly, in the second category. Whether you are walking into a liquor store on a Tuesday afternoon hoping to grab a bottle

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