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Old Overholt's Fourth Extra Aged Cask Strength Is the Hottest Limited Rye of 2026 There is a particular kind of satisfaction that comes from watching a brand that spent decades in the shadows finally step into the light — not with gimmicks or celebrity partnerships, but with whiskey that can hold

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Taps Callum Turner as Global Ambassador in Year-Long Luxury Campaign Scotch whisky doesn't need a celebrity to validate itself. The spirit's reputation was earned across more than two centuries of blending, tasting, and refinement long before the modern marketing machine

Old Grand-Dad Is Back: The Second Batch of Its 7-Year Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon Has Arrived If you've been following what James B. Beam Distilling Co. has been quietly doing with its portfolio of historic, once-overlooked labels, the arrival of the second annual batch of Old Grand-Dad 7-Year Bottled

The Barrel That Built a Legend Is Going Dark: Alabama Cooperage to Shut Its Doors A cooperage in a small north Alabama town has been quietly doing some of the most important work in American whiskey for more than a decade — bending, charring, and sealing the white oak containers that give Jack Dan

From a Scottish Dream to Rocky Mountain Reality: Rick Thomas Distillery Releases Its First Premium Whiskey Black Hawk, Colorado, has always been a place of extraction — gold pulled from its creeks, money pulled from its casino floors. Now, father-and-son distillers Brian and Declan Watts are tryin

MGP's Brown Goods Crisis: Whiskey Sales Crater 59% in Q2 as the American Bourbon Glut Deepens The numbers are ugly and getting uglier. MGP Ingredients, the Kansas-based company that sits at the very center of the American whiskey supply chain, reported second-quarter 2026 results on July 29 that l

Rare Find Puts Glenglassaugh Through Three Cask Finishes — and the Results Are Worth Hunting Down There is a particular kind of release in the independent bottling world that does more than add another expression to a shelf. It makes an argument — about a distillery's range, about the science of f

Cold Spring Hollow Bottles History: How a Pennsylvania Craft Distillery Turned Civil War Tragedy Into Bourbon There is a particular kind of grit embedded in the limestone bedrock of south-central Pennsylvania — a stubbornness that does not announce itself but simply endures. You feel it in the sma

New Riff's 2026 Headliner: The Most Ambitious Pour Yet From Newport's Most Inventive Distillery Every now and then, a Kentucky craft distillery does something that makes the entire industry stop and pay attention. New Riff Distilling, tucked into Newport on the southern bank of the Ohio River, has

Fireball Is Putting Whisky in Your Shoes: The Story Behind the Brand's Most Outrageous Limited Drop Yet There have been plenty of strange brand collaborations in the spirits world over the years — bourbon-branded beef jerky, whiskey-scented candles, rye-infused hot sauce — but Fireball Cinnamon Wh