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Woody Creek Distillers: Keeping Things Clean for Top Quality
2026 Update: Woody Creek Distillers is still going strong — and has an exciting new chapter. The distillery is now women-owned, operating out of Basalt,…
Guinness to Build Stateside Brewery
CrushBrew Editorial · Beer Travel · Maryland · 6 min read You don’t have to fly to Dublin to get a proper Guinness experience. Since…
Politicians Make Bootlegging Great Again
CrushBrew Editorial · Spirits Policy · 6 min read Prohibition ended in 1933, but the economics that made bootlegging profitable never went away — they…
A Spirit for the Dry Season
CrushBrew Editorial · Spirits · 7 min read In 2014, a teetotaling English farmer found a 17th-century distillation manual in his family’s stone cottage and…
Tips for Tipping the Bartender in 2026
CrushBrew Editorial · Drinking Culture · 5 min read Tipping at a bar used to be simple: a dollar a drink, and everyone was more…
Boone County Distilling: The Kentucky Bourbon Story That Sat Silent for 105 Years
< In 1880, the Petersburg Distillery in Boone County, Kentucky was the largest distillery in the state. It produced four million gallons of bourbon a…
The Mondavi Family: How Robert’s Grandchildren Are Making the Best Wine Yet
No family has shaped American wine more profoundly than the Mondavis — and no family has suffered more publicly for it. Cesare Mondavi arrived from…
Bourbon vs. Rye: What’s the Difference and Which Should You Drink?
Pour a bourbon and a rye side by side and the difference is immediate — one is round, sweet, and caramel-forward; the other is drier,…
Kangaroo Island Spirits: Fifteen Years Ahead of the Boom and Still Leading
In 2002, Jon and Sarah Lark started a gin distillery on Kangaroo Island — a pristine wildlife sanctuary 150 kilometers southwest of Adelaide — using…
The Vodka Paradox: Why Tasteless Spirits Cost $50
Vodka is legally defined in the United States as a neutral spirit “without distinctive character, aroma, taste or color.” The entire premise of the spirit…
Jack Daniel’s: The Real Story Behind Tennessee’s Most Famous Whiskey
In 1884, Jasper Newton “Jack” Daniel paid $2,148 for a patch of rocky Tennessee land that most people thought he was crazy to want. The…
Three Ways Champagne Is Beating Its Climate-Change Problem
Champagne’s climate-change problem is simple to state and hard to solve: the region’s identity is built on cool temperatures, high acidity, and slow ripening. Rising…
Long Island Wine in 2026: How Cabernet Franc Finally Put the North Fork on the Map
In 2016, wine writer Lenn Thompson posed two questions about Long Island wine that he said might not be answered for decades: would the North…
Château de Beaucastel: Why This Is the Wine That Ends Drops of God
In the Japanese manga series Drops of God — and its 2023 Netflix adaptation — a young man must identify twelve legendary wines to claim…
Why You Buy Wine by the Label — and What It Actually Tells You
Every wine drinker has done it. Standing in a wine shop with forty bottles at eye level and no particular guidance, you reach for the…