Whiskey News

RoughStock Distillery , the only legal craft distiller in Montana -- ever, is about to unveil its first batch of single malt whiskey.

I have to say that the Tales of the Cocktail experience is growing on me and I am very glad to have finally been able to make the trip.

Shinjiro Torii, founder of the forerunner of whiskey maker Suntory Holdings Ltd., was said to have had extremely sensitive senses of smell and taste in addition to a flair for business.

DRINKS giant Diageo has come under mounting criticism over its shock move to close its iconic Johnnie Walker whisky plant in Ayrshire.

Diageo's dilemma: to tell its workforce first that they're getting sacked, or to let politicians in on the news beforehand? The global drinks giant opted to give its employees priority, if only to tell them that they are being treated as dispensible.

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With the slight but welcome dip in temperature, it seemed fair game to discuss a malt whisky.

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond was today accused of "snoozing on his watch" over the announcement that drinks giant Diageo is to shed 900 jobs.

The battle to save 700 whisky jobs is due to intensify on several fronts and across the political divide.

JOHNNIE Walker whisky bottle labels will need to be changed after parent company Diageo announced an overhaul that will see the closure of its last operation in the brand's home town of Kilmarnock.

Suppose you are Christian Waldschmidt. You wake up on a summer morning in a sooty, one-room homestead that is more bunker than house.

Diageo is closing its drinks packaging plant and 200-year-old distillery with the loss of 900 jobs.

Buffalo Trace Distillery has purchased Old Taylor Bourbon, named after E.H. Taylor Jr., the great-nephew of President Zachary Taylor.

Jeff Arnett takes a sip of Jack Daniel's Old No. 7, just enough for it to settle on his tongue, and then spits it out.

Ask Brian Duax about Iowa's best-known, least-available whiskey, and one of the first phrases to spout from his lips is "a pain in the ass." Duax, co-owner of Central City Liquors in Des Moines, said he gets an average of 30 to 35 phone calls a day inquiring about Templeton Rye, a three-year-old whiskey brand made from a Prohibition-era recipe ...

If you enjoyed the fine alcoholic scent of the amazing Beer Candle , bring out your inner connoisseur with the Hotwicks Whiskey Scented Candle .

City Hall will award grants to a whiskey maker and a startup on Main Street, deciding that both were worthy of taxpayer support but also denying the full grant requests from each of them.

This photo taken May 20, 2009 shows Jeff Arnett, the master distiller at the Jack Daniel Distillery in Lynchburg, Tenn., testing the aroma of whiskey taken from an aging barrel in one of the barrel houses at the distillery.

The gateway to the Whiskey Trail is at George Washington's Mt. Vernon estate where the founding father in 1799 was the country's largest whiskey distiller.

Avid collectors of commemorative bottles and decanters will now be able to do so legally under a proposal signed by the governor.