By Richard Thomas Small business is as American as apple pie, so it might seem strange to ask who doesn’t support the very idea of a craft whiskey sector. After all, even the harshest criticisms of the new micro-distilleries haven’t gone so far as to condemn the sector wholesale. Clay Risen probably came closest with his claim to have never ...

By Richard Thomas A fraternity prank turned tragic early this morning when members of Georgetown College’s Kappa Alpha organization inadvertently demolished the front of the college’s historic Giddings Hall while in pursuit of aged bourbon whiskey. Scott County, Kentucky is home to not just Georgetown College, a Baptist liberal arts school, but is also the legendary birthplace of bourbon whiskey, ...

Interview with the Award-Winning Tasmanian Distillery By Richard Thomas Sullivans Cove wasn’t the first whisky distillery to come out of Australia’s early 1990s legalization, but it got started early and has come out twenty years later at the forefront of one of the most vibrant of the world’s new national whiskey industries. The distillery now has three single malt expressions ...

By Richard Thomas Irish whiskey is booming, so much so that it seems a week doesn’t pass without a new distillery breaking ground or a new expression launch making a splash. This boom is a golden age in Irish whiskey for American drinkers in particular, since so much of what is going on in Ireland has the American market firmly ...

By Richard Thomas One side-effect of the surge in American craft whiskey has been the rise of white whiskey. The two trends are inextricably linked, as the need for new micro-distilleries to get a product on the market and start making money prompted many a start-up to release one or more unaged spirits. Twenty years ago, there was nothing on ...