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Scotland’s legendary whisky island is getting yet another new distillery. Local officials have approved the plans for the new Elixir Distillers project just east of… Read More

2020 will not be remembered well by many people, but there have been a few bright spots for whisky lovers. One is the arrival of… Read More

It would have been easy for Chris and Shanelle Montana to close Du Nord Craft Spirits after arsonists set fire to the distillery’s warehouse during… Read More

This week, we’ll wrap up our two-part tour of Gladfield Malt in New Zealand, where Gabi and Doug Mitchell have turned the family’s barley farm… Read More

Malted barley is critical to the making of many whiskies around the world, and this week, we’ll take you inside the malting process with a… Read More

While we’re all raising our glasses to honor the health care workers, first responders, and other essential workers risking their lives during the COVID-19 coronavirus… Read More

Over the course of this year, we’ll be looking at the many ways climate change could affect whisky makers – and whisky lovers. Since whisky… Read More

There was no Australian Whisky industry to speak of in 1992 when Bill Lark persuaded the government to give him a license to distill whisky… Read More

December 28, 2019 – Beam Suntory has agreed to pay the state of Kentucky more than $700,000 following the environmental damage from last July’s warehouse fire… Read More

Whisky has been a part of politics since the monks were working their stills in medieval times, helping opposing sides bridge their differences over a… Read More

60 years ago, Bill and Marge Samuels dipped the first bottles of Maker’s Mark Bourbon in Loretto, Kentucky. They left the “e” out of “whisky”… Read More

July 8, 2019 – Investigators are now looking through the rubble of a rickhouse at Beam Suntory’s Old Crow warehousing site near Versailles, Kentucky to… Read More