Rye Whiskey

Willett Distillery has operated in Bardstown, Kentucky since the years following Prohibition, but the modern era of the brand traces back to the Ku...

Rittenhouse takes its name from Philadelphia's historic Rittenhouse Square and dates back to the pre-Prohibition era, when Pennsylvania style rye w...

Bulleit traces its roots to Augustus Bulleit, a Kentucky bourbon maker in the 1830s, though the modern brand was revived by his descendant Tom Bull...

WhistlePig launched in Vermont in 2007, building its reputation on 100% rye whiskey at a time when most American producers relied on the legal mini...

Catoctin Creek Distilling Company was founded in 2009 by husband and wife Scott and Becky Harris, becoming the first legal distillery to operate in...

Jack Daniel's traces its roots to Lynchburg, Tennessee, where Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel established the distillery in the 1860s, making it one of...

WhistlePig launched from a farm in Shoreham, Vermont in 2010, built around a simple idea that had largely fallen out of practice in American whiske...

Sazerac Rye is produced by Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky, one of the oldest continuously operating distilleries in the country, w...

Angel's Envy was founded in Louisville by father and son team Lincoln and Wes Henderson, with the brand making its first appearance in 2011 after L...

Basil Hayden traces its lineage to Meredith Basil Hayden Sr., a Kentucky whiskey maker in the 1840s known for crafting a distinctively high-rye rec...

Old Forester was founded in Louisville in 1870 by George Garvin Brown, credited with introducing the first bourbon ever sold exclusively in sealed ...

High West Distillery opened in Park City, Utah, holding the distinction of being the state's first legal distillery since 1870. The company built i...

Sagamore Spirit was founded in Baltimore in 2017 by Under Armour founder Kevin Plank and his partner Bill McDermond, both driven by a mission to re...

Epoch Reserve is produced by Baltimore Spirits Company, a distillery founded to revive Maryland's nearly vanished rye whiskey tradition. Before Wor...

Elijah Craig takes its name from the Baptist minister often credited, though debatably, as the father of Kentucky bourbon in the 18th century. Heav...

Old Commonwealth Distillery operates out of the historic Lawrenceburg, Kentucky site once home to Julian Van Winkle III's Commonwealth Distillery, ...

Old Overholt is widely regarded as America's oldest continually maintained whiskey brand, founded in 1810 by Abraham Overholt in West Overton, Penn...

Michter's traces its origins to 1753 in Pennsylvania, where the operation, first known as Shenk's and later Bomberger's, is regarded as America's e...

Hudson Whiskey traces back to 2003, when Ralph Erenzo and his partner Brian Lee converted an old gristmill in New York's Hudson Valley into Tuthill...

Pikesville traces its roots to Maryland in the 1890s, where it was first produced by the L. Winand & Brothers Distillery as part of the state's...

Heaven Hill Distillery, based in Bardstown and operating its historic Bernheim production facility in Louisville, launched the Grain to Glass serie...

Bardstown Bourbon Company opened its state-of-the-art distillery in the heart of bourbon country with the goal of producing whiskey for both its ow...

Michter's traces its lineage to 1753 in Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, where John Shenk, a Swiss Mennonite farmer, founded the distillery that would...

Old Forester was founded in Louisville in 1870 by George Garvin Brown, whose innovation of selling bourbon exclusively in sealed glass bottles earn...

Knob Creek was launched by Jim Beam in 1992, part of the original wave of small batch bourbons credited with sparking renewed interest in premium A...

Pinhook was founded in 2010 by veteran barman Sean Josephs, who built some of New York's most respected whiskey bars before turning his attention t...

Mt. Pleasant Club Whiskey comes from Reboot Beverages, a small Washington, D.C. label founded by John Loughner and Troy Hughes, who launched the br...

Jefferson's Bourbon was founded in 1997 by Trey Zoeller, who drew on a family whiskey lineage tracing back to his eighth-generation grandmother, on...

Wild Turkey Distillery has stood in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky since the 1940s, and its whiskey has long been shaped by the father-son team of Jimmy an...

Baltimore Spirits Company opened in November 2015 and made history as the first distillery to produce rye whiskey in Baltimore in over fifty years,...

Milam & Greene Distillery is based in Blanco, in the Texas Hill Country, and was founded by whiskey expert Heather Greene alongside master dist...

New Riff Distilling was founded in 2014 by Ken Lewis, a longtime Kentucky liquor retailer, and built in Newport across the river from Cincinnati. T...

SirDavis was founded by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter in partnership with Moët Hennessy, marking the first Moët Hennessy brand built from scratch in the U...

Sagamore Spirit was founded by Under Armour's Kevin Plank and built its home base in Baltimore, staking its identity entirely on rye whiskey rather...

Pursuit Spirits was founded in 2018 by Kenny Coleman and Ryan Cecil, the duo behind the Bourbon Pursuit podcast, one of the most widely followed vo...

Republic Restoratives opened its doors in Washington, D.C. in 2016, founded by Pia Carusone and Rachel Gardner, who left careers outside distilling...

McClintock Distilling opened in Frederick, Maryland in 2016 and built its identity around organic, heirloom grain whiskey rooted in the state's rye...

Bulleit traces its roots to Augustus Bulleit, a 19th-century Kentucky tavern owner whose original recipe leaned heavily on rye grain. His great-gre...

Gray Wolf Craft Distilling operates within Windon Distilling in Saint Michaels, Maryland, a state whose own historic rye tradition made it a fittin...

Thomas H. Handy honors the New Orleans bartender credited with first using rye whiskey as the base spirit for the Sazerac cocktail, widely consider...

Wild Turkey traces its roots to the Ripy family, who returned to Lawrenceburg, Kentucky after the Civil War and built a distillery on the site of t...

Templeton Rye traces its name back to Prohibition-era Iowa, where it was reportedly a personal favorite of Al Capone, who called it simply "the goo...

Silverthorn Reserve was founded by Drew Thorn, who spent over a decade at Sagamore Spirit rising from COO to CEO before launching this independent ...

Pursuit Spirits was founded in 2018 by Kenny Coleman and Ryan Cecil, the pair behind Bourbon Pursuit, one of the most listened-to bourbon podcasts ...

Woodford Reserve Distillery sits in Woodford County, Kentucky, on the site of the oldest standing distillery in the country, with roots tracing bac...

Woodinville Whiskey Company was founded in 2010 in Woodinville, Washington, and was later acquired by Moët Hennessy in 2017, bringing significant i...

Doc Swinson's began this expression as an experimental project after the team found themselves with a surplus of aged rum casks from Trinidad, Vene...

Old Overholt holds the distinction of being America's oldest continuously maintained whiskey brand, founded in West Overton, Pennsylvania in 1810 a...