Recent Straight Bourbon Articles

Does the Age Number on Your Whiskey Even Matter? You're standing in the whiskey aisle, turning a bottle around in your hands. You scan the label. Nice design. Good distillery. But no age statement. No "12 Year." No "Single Barrel 10 Year." Just a name, a proof, and a whole lot of nothing where tha

Sagamore Whiskey Takes Its High Rye Straight Bourbon Nationwide — And the Timing Could Not Be Better Baltimore's Sagamore Whiskey has spent more than a decade building its reputation as the loudest voice in the Maryland rye whiskey revival. Now the distillery is making a move that no one in the Am

Is Your Bourbon Lying to You About Its Color? You've been there. You're standing in the whiskey aisle, scanning the shelf, and your eye lands on that deep, dark, almost mahogany bottle sitting in the back row. It looks serious. It looks like it's been around the block a few times. You reach for it

Jackson Purchase Bourbon Sweeps the ASCOT Awards With Five Distinctions, Cementing a Remarkable Rise From Western Kentucky Less than a year after its first bottle hit retail shelves in Kentucky, Jackson Purchase Bourbon has made a statement that few debut releases manage in one of the industry's m