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From Orphaned Barrels to Award-Winning Whiskey: Dancing Goat's Stillman's Sonder Is the Release You Haven't Heard Of — Yet There is a particular type of American whiskey story that doesn't begin with a famous family name, a splashy marketing budget, or a distillery with a line of tourists snaking

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

Tennessee's Craft Distilleries Just Did Something That's Never Been Done Before There is no shortage of limited-edition whiskey releases in America — the market is flooded with them. Single barrels, small batches, age-stated expressions, and celebrity-branded bottles compete for shelf space and wa

Koopers Whiskey just made a hire that reads less like a corporate reshuffle and more like a homecoming. Jeremy Murray, the Austin hospitality veteran who put Koopers behind the bar more than ten years ago before most people outside Central Texas had ever heard the name, is now stepping inside the

Every September, American whiskey gets a month of its own. National Bourbon Heritage Month puts a spotlight on the only spirit Congress ever singled out as "America's Native Spirit," and it gives drinkers a reason to pull something off the back of the shelf and pour it slowly. Most of the attention

Kansas City's Whiskey Comeback Story Gets Its Biggest Chapter Yet There's something about waiting ten years for anything that feels almost foreign these days. Ten years of patience, in a world where most things get rushed out the door the moment they're marketable. But that's exactly what J. Riege

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

Redemption's 18-Year-Old Bourbon Is Back for 2026 — and It's Bringing a Brand-New Bonded Sibling With It When a bourbon earns the kind of critical reception that Redemption's 18-Year-Old received in 2025, the only real question is whether the brand can find enough barrels to do it again. As of mid

The Dalmore Distillery Select 2026: Sicily Meets the Scottish Highlands in One of the Year's Most Compelling Limited Releases There are distilleries that churn out limited releases the way a factory churns out widgets — annual drops timed to marketing calendars, dressed up in gilded language and s

Two Trees Beverage Wins Gold and Platinum at the 2026 SIP Awards — And the Story Behind the Bourbons Is Just as Interesting as the Medals On August 25, 2026, a small but increasingly hard-to-ignore bourbon operation out of Fletcher, North Carolina, collected two of the more prestigious hardware pi