Recent Bourbon Articles

Where Barrel Char Meets Baseball Chalk: Whiskey Thief and the Louisville Bats Redefine What a Night at the Ballpark Can Be There are cities in America where bourbon is a backdrop — a regional quirk, a tourist trinket, something poured at the hotel bar and promptly forgotten. Louisville is not one

Russell's Reserve 13 Year Old Returns for Spring 2026 — and This One Is Personal Every so often, a bourbon release carries weight that goes beyond the liquid in the bottle. The Spring 2026 edition of Russell's Reserve 13 Year Old is one of those releases. It is a limited, highly anticipated tribut

25 Must-Taste Whiskeys for Your Lifetime List From iconic classics like Johnnie Walker Blue Label to cult favorites like Pappy Van Winkle and even controversial choices like Fireball, this list comprises the essential bottles every whiskey enthusiast should experience at least once. Whil

The Lay of the Land: How America's Whiskey Regions Are Rewriting the Map For most of the twentieth century, the American whiskey conversation began and ended in two places: the bluegrass hollows of Kentucky and the limestone ridges of middle Tennessee. If you wanted bourbon, you looked south towar

A New Baby Calls for a Very Good Bottle Image credit: Flux.1 Few moments in life are weighty enough to demand a truly special whiskey, and the arriv

The 4th Annual American Whiskey Festival Is Headed Back to Louisville — And It's Bigger Than Ever Louisville has never needed much of an excuse to throw a whiskey party, but Watch Hill Proper has been giving the city a particularly good one every August. Watch Hill Proper will host the 4th Annual

What's Really Inside Your Glass of Whiskey? Pour yourself a glass. Go ahead, we'll wait. Now take a second before that first sip and think about what you're actually holding. That amber liquid sitting in your tumbler has been on a journey — one that started with a pile of grain, a bucket of water,

The Bourbons Worth Bringing to a Poker Night Image credit: Flux.1 A great poker night bourbon checks a few simple boxes: it's shareable, approachabl

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.