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The White Oak Crisis Threatening Bourbon's Future
The White Oak Problem: How a Forest Crisis Could Reshape American Bourbon Forever Bourbon has survived Prohibition, survived the dark ages of the 1970s and '80s when American whiskey was deeply unfashionable, and survived every grain shortage, tariff battle, and market correction thrown at it over
Penelope Bourbon Launches Blackberry Old Fashioned RTD
Penelope Bourbon has never been particularly shy about pushing into new territory, but the brand's latest move lands squarely at the intersection of two trends reshaping the American whiskey market: the enduring, almost mythological prestige of the Old Fashioned, and the explosive consumer appetite
Barrell Toasted Seagrass: Everything About the June 9th Drop
Barrell Craft Spirits Dropped a Limited Barrell Toasted Seagrass on June 9 — Here's Everything You Need to Know On June 9, Barrell Craft Spirits released one of the most anticipated limited expressions in its already formidable portfolio: the Barrell Toasted Seagrass. For anyone who has been follo
The Texas Distillery That Keeps Winning — and Just Did It Again
Milam & Greene's Unabridged Volume 4 Earns Double Platinum at the ASCOT Awards There's a craft distillery sitting in Blanco, Texas — a small Hill Country town about 80 miles outside Austin — that has been quietly building one of the more impressive award records in American whiskey. Milam &
Brown-Forman Halts Distillation at Slane Irish Whiskey
Brown-Forman Pulls the Plug on Slane Production — And the Silence Is Deafening The whiskey industry has been bracing for hard news for more than a year now, and Brown-Forman just delivered another gut punch. The Louisville-based spirits giant — home to Jack Daniel's, Woodford Reserve, and a sprawl
Four Walls Whiskey Partners With Jesse Bongiovi's Lily Pond Group
The Gang Goes to Market: How Four Walls Irish American Whiskey Found Its Brand-Building Home With Jesse Bongiovi's Lily Pond Group In a spirits industry crowded with celebrity labels chasing premium price tags and luxury shelf space, Four Walls Irish American Whiskey has always played a different
Old Pulteney Turns 200: The Whisky Born from the North Sea
Two Hundred Years on the North Sea: Old Pulteney's Bicentennial and the Whisky That Defines a Coastline There are distilleries with history, and then there are distilleries that are history — places where the land, the sea, and the people who worked them fused so completely into the spirit that
Bruichladdich and Whitebox Redefine the Canned Cocktail
Bruichladdich and Whitebox Just Changed What a Canned Cocktail Can Be There is a version of the ready-to-drink cocktail that most American drinkers know well — syrupy, low-alcohol, generic, and designed more for shelf appeal than for any real sensory experience. For years, the canned cocktail cate
Espolòn's New Extra Añejo Courts Whiskey Lovers
Espolòn Enters the Extra Añejo Arena With a Double-Cask Tequila That Speaks Directly to Whiskey Drinkers There's a quiet power shift happening on back bars and home liquor shelves across America. Bottles that once sat exclusively in the bourbon and Scotch columns are making room — begrudgingly, in
Jackson Purchase Bourbon Wins Big at 2025 ASCOT Awards
Jackson Purchase Bourbon Sweeps the ASCOT Awards With Five Distinctions, Cementing a Remarkable Rise From Western Kentucky Less than a year after its first bottle hit retail shelves in Kentucky, Jackson Purchase Bourbon has made a statement that few debut releases manage in one of the industry's m
