A private barrel selection bottling of Michter’s 10 Year Old bourbon has sold for a record £166,000 ($209,462) at a charity auction in London.
Buffalo Trace uses rare 300 year-old barrels
Buffalo Trace Distillery is experimenting with barrels made from 300-year-old wood on a new bourbon.
American whiskey
American whiskey has been undergoing a quiet revolution. Now the new wave of distillers, led by bourbon’s Kentucky heartland, is set to go global. Dominic Roskrow reports
Beam opens visitor and global innovation centre
Beam Inc.,the leading US premium spirits company, has unveiled its new visitors’ centre – the Jim Beam American Stillhouse– at its flagship distillery in Clermont, Kentucky.
US: Heaven Hill introduces wheat bourbon Larceny
Heaven Hill Distilleries has introduced Larceny, a super-premium wheat bourbon, to the US market.
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NOTHING'S NORMAL
Happy customers across the UK enjoyed their first pints and non-homemade cocktails at the start of July as its hospitality sector reopened after months of lockdown. But normal service has hardly resumed.
