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“A bubble might be brewing in bourbon,” headlined the Business Insider story a few days back, reporting on an analysis by RBC Capital Markets. (The last time Business Insider predicted an impending ‘bourbon bubble’ was in February of 2014.) The picture...

So a journalist working on a story about whiskey walks into a bar…. Or rather, lots of bars. And also a few liquor stores and restaurants. In a lot of different cities. Like Park City, Utah, for instance. The first time I went to High West, the self...

Chip Tate, one of America’s most acclaimed craft whiskey makers, opened the door to his new distillery, an 11,000-square-foot warehouse standing between a paving company’s landfill and the Waco Regional Airport, and surveyed the mess inside. It was...

CLERMONT, Ky. – Kentucky bourbon remains authentically American, whiskey insiders maintain — even when some of its distillers answer to foreign companies. The planned $13.62 billion acquisition of the owner of Jim Beam and Maker’s...

In this Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, photo, Jim Beam and Maker’s Mark bottles line the counter at the Jim Beam visitors’ center at Clermont, Ky. The bourbon brands will be acquired by Japanese-based Suntory Holdings Ltd. as part of its planned...