The Speed Art Museum unveiled a stunning lineup for its online and live, in-person Art of Bourbon auction on September 26 featuring some of the rarest, most elusive, and sought-after whiskeys in the world up for bid. The live auction will be held 7:15pm – 8:45pm EST. The online auction is free to bid but registration is required at artofbourbon.org. Here are ...

Georgetown, Kentucky’s Blue Run Spirits has released Reflection II. When launched in May 2022, Reflection I Bourbon quickly became a favorite in the whiskey community as one of Blue Run Spirits’ most approachable products. With Reflection II, Whiskey Director Shaylyn Gammon is looking to continue that tradition while emphasizing a different layer of flavor notes than its predecessor. While Reflection ...

Jim Beam has launched the third expression within the Hardin’s Creek Kentucky Series (announced June 2023), which aims to illustrate how the setting of whiskey maturation can really matter in the final product. Both the location and the buildings use can have a major impact. All three expressions are aged for 17 years with the same mash bill — the ...

Independent bottler Lost Lantern and its Fall 2023 Single Cask Collection will showcase five new single casks from some of America’s most sought-after distilleries. This seasonal release spotlights whiskies from four returning Lost Lantern partners, all fan favorites: Balcones Distilling (TX), Smooth Ambler (WV), New Riff (KY), and Corbin Cash (CA). It also includes Lost Lantern’s first release from its ...

Bruichladdich Distillery unveiled the 14th annual series of Octomore, its super-heavily peated single malt earlier this month, so those bottles should be on or near local shelves by now. First released in 2008, Octomore single malts continue to defy whisky wisdom today. Matured for five years, bottled close to cask strength and always super-heavily peated, Octomore’s surprising elegance has led ...