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Woodford Reserve Distillery Series Red Corn: The Heirloom Grain Bourbon That Almost Wasn't There is a moment in every great bourbon's story where something goes sideways — where nature, timing, or circumstance conspires against a distillery's best intentions — and the whiskey that eventually makes

Southern Indiana has long lived in the shadow of its neighbor to the south. Louisville sits just across the Ohio River, and for most whiskey drinkers, that river marks the beginning and end of serious American bourbon country. But a small town perched on the Knobstone Escarpment — a limestone bluff

North of Kentucky: How Canadian Craft Distillers Stepped Into America's Bourbon Shadow For the better part of a decade, Kentucky bourbon ruled the back bars of Canada from Vancouver to Halifax. Its arrival was no accident — aggressive marketing, an ever-expanding range of premium expressions, and

TX Whiskey Triple Cask: Fort Worth's Boldest Experiment Yet Reaches Its 17th Chapter The Experimental Series from TX Whiskey has never been a collection designed for the faint of palate. Since the Fort Worth distillery launched the program, each release has been a deliberate stress-test of what Te

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 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 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

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 &amp

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

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