Recent Craft Whiskey Articles

The Engine Room of Flavor: How the Still You Never See Determines Every Sip You Take Walk into any serious bourbon bar in America — the kind with shelves stacked three rows deep and a bartender who can talk mash bills for an hour — and you'll encounter endless debates about grain recipes, barrel e

Vermont Rye Pioneer WhistlePig Officially Joins the Kentucky Distillers' Association For the better part of two decades, WhistlePig Whiskey has existed as something of a deliberate outsider in the American spirits world — a rye-forward rebel operating from a remote farm on the edge of Lake Champla

Where the Pit Meets the Barrel: Pursuit Spirits and Meat Church Release the Honey Hog Barrel Bourbon There is a long tradition in American food and drink culture of treating the smoker and the whiskey glass as companions rather than competitors. Ribs and rye, brisket and bourbon — these are relati

14 Outstanding Craft Whiskeys to Sample Discover the bold and innovative world of craft whiskey with our curated list of must-try bottles. From small-batch distilleries pushing boundaries with unique grains to artisans redefining classic styles, these whiskeys offer unforgettable flavors

Miles Munroe Leaves Westward Whiskey After 13 Years, Launches Grimoire Spirits The American single malt whiskey category lost one of its most consequential architects last week. Miles Munroe, the master blender who spent thirteen years shaping Westward Whiskey's identity from the inside out, has d

Iron Smoke Whiskey Crosses the Country: New York's Applewood-Smoked Bourbon Lands in California There are distilleries that play it safe — standard mash bills, familiar flavor profiles, distribution strategies that hug the coasts where the name already means something. Then there are distilleries

Walk into your local liquor store and take a good look at the shelves. Chances are, about 80% of what you see comes from maybe four or five massive corporations. The rest — those interesting little bottles with hand-drawn labels and names you've never heard of — are fighting for their lives just to

Jake Norris built two legendary Colorado distilleries. Now he's doing something nobody has tried before. There's a short list of people who can genuinely claim they changed the way Americans drink whiskey. Jake Norris is on it. The man who helped put Colorado on the craft whiskey map — first a

How WildRye Distilling Became the Most Decorated Distillery in the State There's a distillery tucked into Bozeman, Montana, that most people outside the Northern Rockies haven't heard of yet. That's about to change. WildRye Distilling just walked away from one of the most competitive regional spir

10 Craft Bourbons Hiding in Plain Sight Image credit: OpenAI In the ever-evolving world of bourbon, craft distilleries have emerged as pioneers, off