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Sazerac acquires Garrard County Distilling in Lancaster, Kentucky, adding a 210-acre bourbon facility purchased for $20 million.

Cocktail Wars premieres tonight on E! with Joey Fatone, Lance Bass and Melissa Brooke, plus Woodford Reserve, Jack Daniel’s and other major spirits.

Bardstown Bourbon Company’s 104-proof Lochs of Jura Barrel Finish combines 10- to 12-year bourbon and rye before spending 32 months in Scotch whisky casks from Scotland’s Isle of Jura.

Bardstown Bourbon 2026 Discovery combines 7-, 10- and 11-year-old bourbons before four months in custom-toasted Oregon Garryana oak barrels.

Unreined Whiskey opens a 30,000-square-foot rickhouse in College Station, Texas, debuting a seven-year wheated bourbon at 104.2 proof.

Colorado’s Breckenridge Distillery, founded by Bryan Nolt, releases its first dedicated national rye whiskey—100 proof, with an 80% rye mash bill.

Never Say Die plans a fall 2026 Lexington brand home with an English pub, micro-distillery and world-exclusive Double Ocean Aged Bourbon Whiskey.

The new 100-proof Stetson Bourbon averages seven years and marks the first-ever collaboration between Bardstown Bourbon Company and Green River Distilling Co.

Kings County releases a 9-year, 147-day Brooklyn bourbon whiskey at 134 proof for $250, available online Monday, August 3, at 2 p.m. ET.