Rowley's Whiskey Forge

We cocktail types like the barrel aged gins that have been showing up over the last few years on the American market. Their oakiness with ...

The American Distilling Institute announced medal winners in Denver this evening for its 7th annual judging of artisan American spirits. As ...

In Hillsboro, Oregon, west of Portland, the Imbrie family erected a granary barn around 1855, a few years before Charles Darwin published Th...

Hubert Germain-Robin nosing brandy at Huber's Starlight Distillery The American Distilling Institute has announced its panels of jud...

Charentais still at McMenamin's Cornelius Pass Roadhouse Distillery  Just over the transom from The American Distilling Institute...

In the airless, nearly gluey July night, black-suited pallbearers hoist aloft a plain wooden coffin and begin their walk. In their wake, sol...

We cover a lot of things here at the Whiskey Forge that aren't whiskey. From rum to raccoons , if you can eat it or drink it, it's f...

In 2011, more than 250 craft distilleries dotted the American distilling landscape. Fewer than half of these are listed in David J. Reimer’s...

Word has come this morning from Andrew Faulkner, judging director for the American Distilling Institute, that winners for the ADI's 6th ...

I'm off to Kentucky next week for the annual judging of American craft spirits. I'll be joined in Louisville by some cocktail types,...

...[T]he recipes in here reflect the last 3-5 years  of tinkering with different recipes, techniques, and ideas  in an effort to do one...

This coming April, Louisville will once again host the American Distilling Institute's annual spirits conference. From April 1-4 2012, c...

A bill wending its way through the New Jersey state assembly would create a special license for craft distilleries. As you can imagine, I am...

Earlier this month, Stephen McCarthy, president and founder of Clear Creek Distillery in Oregon and one of modern America's distilling ...

Gather 'round, ye distillers of brandy and gin, ye wranglers of whiskey. This April, the American Distilling Institute holds its 8th ann...

This summer, Max Watman and I will be joining boozy forces in New Orleans for the annual Tales of the Cocktail celebration. Max is the auth...

The second part of As Surely as Thunder Follows Lightning , a talk on the nature and origins of modern American home distilling. The first s...