Carbon & Oak

The whiskey distilleries worth planning a trip around across the Midwest, Kentucky excluded on purpose. Second installment of an annual series — including which states didn't make the cut.

A solo day trip through Nashville with no bourbon agenda ended with the best pour of the trip at Nashville Barrel Company's tasting room — and a Single Barrel Experience flight I didn't see coming.

Buying for a whiskey lover can be intimidating. Once someone has a shelf full of bottles, it's hard to know what they don't already own.

Outside the United States, whiskey is king, but American whiskey doesn't always command the same attention. While bourbon has exploded in popularity at home, many bars abroad still dedicate far more shelf space to Scotch, Irish whiskey, or Japanese whisky.