Distilled from 55% rye and 45% barley grown entirely on Islay, the 7-year-old whisky emerged from a crop rotation experiment ...

Basil Hayden, part of the Jim Beam Small Batch Collection, just announced the addition of yet another whiskey to its lineup. But this one isn’t a bourbon—it’s a new rye whiskey made from an unusual ...

Larry Ebersold never planned on a life in whiskey. Five decades later, he’s the quiet architect of rye’s resurgence.

Malted barley usually makes up the smallest percentage of an American whiskey’s recipe and, generally speaking, its role is more functional than flavorful. That’s because, when barley is malted, it ...

If you’re the type of whiskey geek who pays close attention to things like mash bills of your favorite distilleries, then you’ve probably noticed the slow creep of malted rye into the distilling world ...

When the idea for Heaven Hill's new Grain to Glass line began a decade ago, executive chairman Max Shapira had ambitions of harvesting the grain himself on his company's land. No one has let him near ...

A Midwinter Night’s Dram Act 13 brings familiar flavors, with amped-up baking spice, pine, and cocoa. It does dial back on ...

Five ryes topped the 2025 LVGSA with two Platinum and three Gold medals. Here’s why American rye whiskey continues to set the ...

Grain alcohol, the stuff of ill-advised college parties, takes on a different meaning when you consider that grains are the foundations of most distilled spirits. Steeping grains — from corn to rye to ...

Cocktail Queries is a Paste series that examines and answers basic, common questions that drinkers may have about mixed drinks, cocktails and spirits. Check out every entry in the series to date.

The Scottish may not have invented whisky — the distillation process was likely introduced to Scotland by spirit-making monks who migrated from mainland Europe in the 1200s — but you could argue they ...