Recent Whiskey News

Deep in the northwest of England, a quiet revolution is happening in a corner of Lancashire that most whisky drinkers have never heard of. While Scotland still wears the crown, a handful of English distilleries are proving that you don’t need centuries of history to make world-class single malt. On

America turns 250 in 2026, and Kentucky is throwing the party every serious whiskey man has been waiting for. Mark your calendar for February 13-15 in Louisville: the very first Kentucky Bourbon Country Auction and Celebration is coming, and it’s bringing once-in-a-lifetime bottles, barrel picks yo

There’s something about fall Saturdays in College Station that just feels right. The roar of 100,000-plus fans inside Kyle Field, the smell of barbecue smoke drifting across campus, and now—starting this season—a proper Texas-made whiskey flowing at the stadium and tailgates. Unreined Whiskey, a br

Deep in the rolling hills of Clermont, Kentucky, something strange has been happening inside the James B. Beam rickhouses for the last decade and a half. The same exact mashbill – the recipe of corn, rye, and barley – was poured into barrels and then scattered across different warehouses. Some barr

Deep in the heart of Seattle, where the salt air off Elliott Bay mixes with the smell of fresh-roasted coffee, two old friends just pulled off something that feels like it was thirty-five years in the making. Starting this Black Friday, November 28, 2025, a very limited run of 1,800 bottles of Cop

The alarm clock hasn’t even gone off yet and half the country is already thinking about bourbon. It’s in the coffee mug on the workbench, the flask in the deer stand, the bottle on the shelf that only comes down when the kids finally move out. Bourbon isn’t just a drink in America – it’s a handshak

Most guys have a bottle of something on the dresser that’s been there since the Clinton administration. It gets a splash on New Year’s Eve, maybe a wedding, and that’s it. Then Elijah Craig went and did something nobody saw coming: they took the exact smell of their charred oak barrels—the ones tha

Every December, the same old cardboard Advent calendars show up in stores – cheap chocolate behind flimsy doors that tear the second you touch them. Most guys gave up on that routine years ago. But what if someone took the idea, threw out the kiddie stuff, and built something a grown man would actu

On a quiet November evening in San Francisco, something happened that nobody in the bourbon world saw coming. A small family distillery from southern Indiana – the kind of place you drive past on a two-lane road without even noticing – walked away with the biggest prize in American whiskey. Starlig

Chip Tate, the man who put Texas whiskey on the map with Balcones, has been quiet for a while. Not anymore. After stepping into the role of Master Distiller for Innovation at Foley Family Wines & Spirits back in early 2024, he just dropped his first new project: Ampersand. Three small-batch spi