Recent Single Barrel Articles

Delta One Goes Bourbon Country: Blanton's Single Barrel Is Now Flying at 35,000 Feet For years, tracking down a bottle of Blanton's Original Single Barrel Bourbon has been something of a sport — a mix of patience, luck, and a willingness to show up at a liquor store the moment the doors open. Some

The Short Answer: A Straw for Barrels A whiskey thief is a long, narrow tube that lets a distiller pull a small sample of spirit out of a barrel without tipping, tapping or opening it. Most are copper or glass, some are plastic, and nearly all of them work the same way: slide the tube in through t

From Wyoming to Bardstown: Roaming Road Spirits Brings Its Single Barrel Vision Home When Mike Gilmore launched Roaming Road Spirits in September 2024, his pitch to the American market was deliberately counterintuitive. At a moment when bourbon was consuming nearly every column inch of spirits cov

Dented Brick Distillery's Single Barrel Bottled-in-Bond Straight Rye Whiskey: Utah's Craft Scene Reaches a New Milestone On October 12, 2026, a small distillery sitting on a piece of historically loaded ground in South Salt Lake quietly made one of the most meaningful releases in its ten-year hist

Starlight Distillery's 10-Year Mizunara Reserve: The Rarest Bottle to Come Out of Southern Indiana When a craft distillery pulls a decade-aged bourbon from a single cask of centuries-old Japanese oak, limits the release to 250 bottles, and puts it through a lottery, it tends to get people's attent

Does Barrel Placement Really Change Your Whiskey? Most guys crack open a bottle of good bourbon and think about the grain, maybe the char on the barrel, or how many years it spent aging. What almost nobody thinks about is where that barrel was sitting inside the warehouse while those years ticke

Single Barrel Bourbon Fans Get Your Wallets Out Exclusive Single Barrel Bourbons stand as paragons of craftsmanship and refinement within the whiskey realm. Distilled with meticulous care, these limited-edition treasures originate from a single barrel, ensuring a distinctive and unparall

Carnival Cruise Line Drops a President-Picked, Single-Barrel Bulleit Bourbon for America's 250th — And You Can Only Get It at Sea There's a bourbon out there right now that you cannot walk into a liquor store and buy. You cannot order it online. You cannot find it at an airport duty-free counter o

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

Elijah Craig Expands Its Single Barrel Lineup: The Story Behind the 21-Year-Old Release and Where It Fits in a Decades-Long Legacy Heaven Hill Distilleries has never been a company that rushes anything. From the rickhouses stacked deep with aging bourbon in the hills around Bardstown, Kentucky, to