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Molson Coors Purchases Blue Run Spirits

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Brewing behemoth Molson Coors created the Coors Spirits Company and has made their first acquisition foray into the spirits industry with the purchase of Kentucky-based bourbon and rye whiskey producer Blue Run Spirits. Blue Run Spirits will join Five Trail Blended American Whiskey [launched in 2021] and Barmen 1873 Bourbon [launched in 2022] as members […]

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Buffalo Trace Honors Grandpappy Weller With New Daniel Weller Range

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Buffalo Trace Distillery has honored Daniel Weller – the ‘forefather of American whiskey’ and grandfather to William Larue (WL) Weller, who was the first to sell a wheated bourbon in Kentucky – with a new range of bourbons showcasing wheat varieties. Buffalo Trace plans to launch a new limited edition entry every other year in […]

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Woodford Reserve Batch Proof? Yes, Master…

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Woodford Reserve has released Batch Proof as part of their limited edition Master’s Collection bourbon series which also consists of Five-Malt Stouted Mash, Chocolate Malted Rye Bourbon, Maple Wood Finish, American Select Oak and Oat Grain Kentucky. Woodford Reserve Batch Proof was bottled at a whopping 62% alcohol by volume [124 proof] and is said […]

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Betty Booze Collabs With Wrexham AFC For Winning Bourbon RTD’s

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Betty Booze – the brainchild of actress Blake Lively [“Gossip Girl”] – has expanded from their tonic-and-mixer beginnings in 2021 to their ready-to-drink [RTD] cocktail range which has collaborated with Wrexham Association Football Club (AFC) players, the Welsh club team co-owned by Lively’s husband, actor Ryan Reynolds [“Deadpool”] whose documentary series “Welcome to Wrexham” has […]

Ezra Brooks Adds Pair Of Products – Rye And Liqueur

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Luxco-owned Ezra Brooks has added a pair of products to their line-up – a rye whiskey and a bourbon cream liqueur. Ezra Brooks 99 Straight Rye Whiskey contains a 51% rye mash bill, is bottled at 49.5% alcohol by volume [99 proof] and is said to offer notes of chocolate, leather and vanilla. Ezra Brooks […]

Buffalo Trace Reveals Peated Bourbon

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Buffalo Trace Distillery has released their peated bourbon – a bourbon made with peated malt – as part of their Experimental Collection. Buffalo Trace Experimental Peated Bourbon uses smoked peated malt, was matured for nearly 10 years in new charred white oak casks before being bottled at 45% alcohol by volume [90 proof] and is […]

Best Gift -Personalized Labeled Whisky

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if you are looking for new ways to celebrate that special moment, how about a bottle of whisky with a personalized label? That is all possible thanks to the Maker’s Mark distillery. You can buy a bottle of whisky and include the name of your choice on the label. Imagine how impressed the person will […]

Largest Bourbon Barrel Flag Unveiled

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Jeptha Creed Distillery and Cruise Custom Flags will unveil the largest bourbon barrel American flag ever made! The flag is to be unveiled at Jeptha Creed Distillery on June 14, 2023, which is Flag Day. Coincidentally, it also just happens to be Natio…

Diageo CEO Ivan Menezes Dies

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Sir Ivan Menezes, the long-serving CEO of spirits behemoth Diageo – the world’s largest spirits company – has died at the age of 63 after a short illness. Menezes had been in the hospital being treated for several undisclosed medical conditions including a stomach ulcer. Since 2013, Menezes had been the chief executive of Diageo, […]

Midleton Debuts Quartet Of Single Cask Whiskies

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Irish Distillers-produced Midleton has released four single cask whiskies – 27-Year-Old First-Fill Bourbon; 25-Year-Old Virgin American Oak; 21-Year-Old Virgin American Oak; and 24-Year-Old First-Fill Bourbon – for their Very Rare Collection and which will be available in specific travel retail venues around Europe. Midleton Very Rare’s 27-Year-Old First-Fill Bourbon has been bottled at 49.6% alcohol […]

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