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There is a long tradition in American business of showing up in person when something important is on the line. Letters get filed. Emails get skimmed. But a person standing in a congressional office, talking about the grain he buys, the people he employs and the town he operates in, tends to stick.

Smoke has been hanging over Eastern Washington for weeks now, and the Spokane Complex Fire is still burning. For the people living out there, the damage isn't measured in acres. It's measured in houses that aren't there anymore, in medications left behind, in a truck that got too close to the flame

A New Class Steps Into One of Hospitality's Most Competitive Training Grounds Every year, bartenders from around the world send in applications hoping for a shot at one of the most respected training programs in the drinks business. Most don't make it. The ones who do spend a week in New Orleans w

There is a long tradition at the FBI of keeping a low profile. For decades after J. Edgar Hoover — who once handed out souvenir fingerprint cards with his own name on them — the directors who followed made a point of staying out of the spotlight. No branded merchandise, no personality cults, no swa

A Young Distillery With Something to Prove Jackton Distillery doesn't have centuries of history behind it. There's no dusty legend, no storied founding family going back to the 1700s. What it does have is a working farm in South Lanarkshire, just outside Glasgow, a family with a clear-eyed visio

There's a number the whiskey industry would rather not talk about too loudly. Women make up roughly 40% of whiskey drinkers in the United States and around 35% in the United Kingdom. That's not a fringe figure. That's not a niche trend. That's a massive portion of the consumer base that has been bu

A Minneapolis Distillery Refuses to Change How It Makes Whiskey — So It Changed Its Category Instead Brother Justus Whiskey Company isn't backing down. The Minneapolis craft distillery has a new logo, a new category label on its bottles, and a whole lot to say about the federal government's role i

Two Women Set Up an Unauthorized Shot Bar at the Most Famous Hill in American Running The Oak Barrel Half Marathon has seen a lot in its 17 years winding through the hills of Lynchburg, Tennessee — but this year's race served up something nobody on the organizing committee had planned for: a rogue

The bourbon business is hurting. Exports are down. Bankruptcies are piling up. Younger drinkers are cutting back. And yet, Heaven Hill—one of the most recognized names in American whiskey—just opened a brand-new $200 million distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky. At the same time, the company quietly a

The distillery tried something new — and the results were messy, exciting, and everything in between There are few things in the world of American bourbon that get collectors and enthusiasts more fired up than a limited release from Buffalo Trace Distillery. The Frankfort, Kentucky institution has