By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ The new Midwinter Night’s Dram is out from Utah’s High West Distillery, a company I only just published an interview with. This fan-favorite expression is defined by its multi-sourcing for the whiskeys in the bottle and its broad use of cask finishes. Introduced in 2013 as a spin-off of Rendezvous …
Some of the hardest workers in modern manufacturing are far too small to see. They don’t clock in, they don’t take breaks, and they’ll happily munch on sugar around the clock. They’re microorganisms, and they’ve been making useful things for thousands of years. Yeast turns grain into beer and dough into bread. Bacteria transform milk …
When it comes to whiskey on camera, it’s all in the details. They check the label and observe the settling in the glass and then estimate the space in which the tasting will be held. If anything from that looks blurry, the video takes away some of its ‘sizzle’. Tasting rooms are usually dark and …
By Richard Thomas Utah’s High West Distillery got its start so early in the craft whiskey boom of the 2010s that they could be described as one of the companies that pioneered a now bedrock business model for small distilleries everywhere: start building your brand with sourced whiskey while financing and building your actual distillery, …
Still Austin Whiskey Co has officially opened the doors to The Still Austin Quarter at 4211 Willow Springs Road in South Austin. The 15,000-square-foot live music, cocktail, and food destination in The Yard is Still Austin’s love letter to Austin and brings the world of The Musician, the figure on its flagship bourbon label, to …
Keeper’s Heart Whiskey is proud to announce the launch of its Triple Pot Distilled Straight Rye, the second release in the brand’s groundbreaking trilogy of American triple pot distilled whiskeys. Following the debut of American Pot Still Whiskey, this latest expression continues Keeper’s Heart’s mission to challenge convention by combining Irish whiskey-making tradition with America’s …
The American Craft Spirits Association (ACSA) and Park Street today presented highlights from the 2026 Craft Spirits Data Project (CSDP) at its Annual Craft Spirits Economic Briefing. Tom Bard (President, ACSA and Co-Founder of The Bard Distillery) and Emily Pennington (CEO, ACSA) shared key sales data and insights from the 2025 calendar year. The Craft …
Starlight Distillery is proud to announce the release of its Estate Collection 7-Year Cask Strength Bourbon, an annual expression produced in collaboration with the Estate Whiskey Alliance and among the purest reflections of what Starlight has to offer. Starlight Distillery’s Estate Collection is a true reflection of commitment, passion and family legacy. Made entirely grain-to-glass …
By Richard Thomas Utah’s High West Distillery has released Act 14 of their popular A Midwinter Night’s Dram. In recent years, the expression has been a variant of High West’s Rendezvous Rye, based on a blend of their in-house rye plus rye whiskeys sourced from MGP and (very lately) Bardstown Bourbon Company. The calling card …
Root Shoot Spirits is releasing two new, first-ever 6-Year American Single Malt whiskies: a 6-Year Single Barrel American Single Malt Whiskey and a 6-Year Small Batch Bottled-in-Bond American Single Malt Whiskey, now available for very limited distribution in Colorado and nationwide. “These whiskies represent more than six years in a barrel,” said Todd Olander, Root …
