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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

Final Flight Reserve: The Bourbon That Salutes the Last Jump Jet There is a tradition in military aviation known as a sundown ceremony — a carefully choreographed farewell in which a storied aircraft makes its final approach, touches down one last time, and is officially retired from service. On J

For the first time since Knob Creek Bourbon hit shelves back in 1992, the distillery is doing something it has never done before — changing the color of its signature wax seal. And the reason behind it is about as American as bourbon itself. James B. Beam Distilling Co. has announced the releas

L&T Spirits Drops Limited Releases Tied to America's 250th and a College Football Legend There are bottles of bourbon you drink, and then there are bottles you keep. L&T Spirits, an independent Kentucky spirits company, has just released two limited-edition Kentucky Straight Bourbons that

Bourbons Perfect for Drinking While You Cook Dinner Image credit: Flux.1 Cooking dinner is one of life's great casual rit

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