VinePair

JULY 6, 2025

2024 was a tough year for the American whiskey industry. The Spirits Business recently published its annual Brand Champions Report , which revealed the top 10 best-selling American whiskey brands and market trends in the category at large. Check out the rest of the world’s most popular American whiskey brands below! were down 2.7

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Whiskey Liqueur Brandy Bottling 84

The Whiskey Wash

JANUARY 21, 2025

However, this whiskey was not created with avid whiskey fans in mind. Instead, it was created as a fun and quirky expression, at a lower ABV and perhaps with a more approachable profile for those not accustomed to drinking whiskey. This is something that needs to be taken into account when you first try this whiskey.

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Liqueur Whiskey Highball Brandy 98

The Whiskey Wash

AUGUST 7, 2024

We review Virginia Distillery Company Cider Cask Reserve American Single Malt, first aged in ex-bourbon barrels for years before being finished in a combination of French calvados casks, Virginia cider barrels, and Laird’s Apple Brandy barrels. Dr. George G. “We remain committed to leading the American Single Malt movement.

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Whiskey Brandy Bottling 105

VinePair

MARCH 14, 2024

If there’s one thing whiskey fans love, it’s superlatives. All spirits must be American rye whiskeys. It must be a rye whiskey under the definition during the period in which it was bottled. Interviewees could only choose rye whiskeys they’ve personally sampled. Oldest, highest proof, rarest — we covet them all.

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Whiskey Rum Bottling Brandy 135

VinePair

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

And while it’s probably a stretch to call bourbon “America’s native spirit” — that title could equally go to apple brandy or rye whiskey — it’s certainly a distinctly American product anyone in the U.S.A. Since the whiskey boom in the mid-2010s, some states are practically neck deep in craft bourbon.

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Brandy Whiskey Bottling Liquor 134

The Cocktail Lovers

JUNE 11, 2025

In our first menu, for example, we had classic drinks, like the Brandy Crusta and Julep. I love whiskey as well, but rum is more fun. Whiskey is not for everyone. Then in 2011 we launched two new categories, like the Manhattan, and hot winter cocktails, such as Blazers and Hot Butter Rums. Bringing them to life in Athens.

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Rum Cocktail Culture Bar Tiki 71

Cocktails with Suderman

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

And it’s a story that results in one of my favorite clever drink variations — an apple brandy-forward riff on the Penicillin (a honey-ginger Scotch whisky sour) that I’ve never seen published anywhere. You’ll need bottles of apple brandy and Scotch whisky. I knew…I liked…whiskey…?

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Brandy Bartending Bartender Gin 52