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Borders Distillery Closes Workshop Series with Deep Time
The Borders Distillery Closes Its Workshop Series with 'Deep Time,' a Whisky Rooted in Science, Soil, and Seven Years of Spirit There is a particular kind of anticipation that builds around a distillery still waiting to release its first single malt. Every bottle that comes before it carries doubl
Jameson Digs Up an 1826 Recipe for a New Bottle
Somewhere in the archive at Midleton Distillery in County Cork, there is a small pocket notebook. It is dated 1826, and the handwriting inside belongs to John Jameson II. On one of the pages is a mashbill — the recipe for what went into the still. That scrap of two-hundred-year-old bookkeeping is t
Colorado Rye Earns Double Platinum: Geography Redefined
Smokeye Hill's Blended Rye Takes Double Platinum — And Raises Some Important Questions Colorado Springs doesn't exactly roll off the tongue when the conversation turns to great American rye whiskey. Kentucky and Indiana dominate that conversation, with Tennessee occasionally muscling in. But Smoke
Bib & Tucker's First Bottled-in-Bond Is a Tennessee High-Rye
There's a version of the bottled-in-bond story where a brand simply does the minimum — four years in the barrel, 100 proof in the bottle, a single distillery and a single season — and calls it a day. Bib & Tucker's first entry into the bonded category isn't that. The Tennessee small-batch b
A Hidden Vault, A Bourbon Puzzle, And Dessert You Have To Unlock
There's a steakhouse in downtown Oklahoma City that decided a regular whiskey flight just wasn't going to cut it anymore. Stock & Bond OKC , located inside The National, Autograph Collection Downtown OKC , has spent years building up one of the biggest American whiskey collections in the stat
Spokane's Fire and the Whiskey That Gives Back
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
Indiana Fever and Cedar Ridge Bourbon Collaboration Explained
Iowa Meets Indiana: Cedar Ridge Distillery and the Fever Drop a Bourbon That Goes Beyond the Final Buzzer There is a certain kind of partnership that makes immediate sense the moment it is announced — two organizations operating at a similar frequency, drawing from the same well of regional identi
The American Distillery Bringing Irish Pot Still Whiskey to the US
A Pub in Galway, a Bartender's Story, and an American Distillery Born From Obsession There are origin stories, and then there are the kinds of stories that change the entire trajectory of a person's life. For Patrick and Meagan Miller, it happened in 2011 at a pub in Galway, Ireland, during the Ir
Bradshaw Bourbon Wins Best in Show at WSWA Competition
Bradshaw Bourbon's "Best in Show" Win Is No Celebrity Stunt — It's the Real Deal There is a particular brand of skepticism that greets any bottle bearing a celebrity's name. The sports fan in the liquor aisle eyes the label, clocks the famous face, and assumes the liquid inside is secondary to the
Inside the 12th Annual North American Bourbon Competition
The 2026 North American Bourbon and Whiskey Competition: Everything You Need to Know About the 12th Annual Showdown Every summer, when the heat builds over Colorado's Front Range and the bourbon industry's attention turns toward the Rocky Mountains, one competition quietly assembles the most rigor
