Recent Craft Distillery Articles

Ten Years Down, One Bottle to Show for All of It: Jeptha Creed's Solera Aged Bourbon Is a Decade in the Making Most craft distilleries mark an anniversary with a label refresh or a press release about hitting a distribution milestone. Jeptha Creed Distillery isn't wired that way. The Shelbyville,

From the Top of the Rockies to the Ready-to-Drink Cooler: Breckenridge Distillery's Breck Vodka Seltzer Signals a New Chapter When a distillery sitting nearly two miles above sea level — one that has spent nearly two decades building one of the most decorated bourbon reputations in the country — d

West of Tradition: How Westland Distillery's New Documentary Reframes the Entire American Single Malt Conversation There's a particular kind of ambition that doesn't announce itself loudly. It just keeps showing up — in the fields, in the stillhouse, in the barrel room — year after year, doing the

Texas Dark Horse: How Austin 121 Cask Strength Light Whiskey Just Won Two of the Most Competitive Awards in the Whiskey World The 2026 International Whisky Competition didn't hand its highest American honors to a Kentucky household name, a Scottish heritage brand, or a Japanese single malt with de

Nebraska's Quiet Distillery Just Swept a National Whiskey Competition — and the Industry Should Be Paying Attention There is a certain kind of satisfaction that comes from watching an underdog clean up in a room full of heavyweights. For anyone who follows American craft spirits, the results comin

Carolina Whiskey Is Having Its Moment — and the Industry Is Paying Attention The American whiskey map has long been drawn with two thick lines: one through the limestone-rich bluegrass of Kentucky, and another cutting across Tennessee. For generations, those two regions absorbed virtually all the

A New Address, A New Era: Puerto Rico Distillery Plants Its Flag in Brunswick, Maryland There is a particular kind of ambition that does not announce itself loudly. It shows up in a century-old building in a small Maryland railroad town, sets up a still, and puts out 218 bottles of the most carefu

Last Call in California: How Big Money Is Killing Craft Distillery Delivery For anyone who spent pandemic lockdowns discovering small-batch bourbon from a California craft distillery — boxes dropped at the door, a hand-stamped label, something made fifty miles away by someone who actually knew you

Northern Kentucky's Boone County Distilling Co. Earns National Recognition as One of America's Top Small Businesses Worth a Road Trip Somewhere between the sprawling mega-distilleries that dominate bourbon country's skyline and the weekend hobbyist operations that pop up and vanish, there exists a

Stranahan's Just Did Something No Colorado Distillery Has Ever Done Before There are releases, and then there are statements. What Stranahan's American Single Malt Whiskey has just announced lands firmly in the second category. The Denver distillery — the same operation that has spent two decades