Tom Wilmes
Tom Wilmes is a journalist based in central Kentucky who covers bourbon and other spirits, travel, and food. A contributor to Garden & Gun, he has also written for Whisky Advocate, The Local Palate, Southbound, and other publications. A Kentucky Colonel and Certified Executive Bourbon Steward, he has spent years reporting on—and indulging in—the culture he covers, a responsibility he doesn’t take lightly. Follow him on Instagram @americadistilled.
Southern Heroes
The co-founder of Uncle Nearest, the most-awarded new whiskey brand in the country, keeps an undersung distiller’s legacy alive
Drinks
A century since Prohibition, Hartfield & Co. remains the first and only distillery operating in bourbon’s namesake county
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Meet Victoria Eady Butler, great-great-granddaughter of the pioneering distiller Nathan “Nearest” Green, who is carrying on her family’s legacy as the newly named master blender for Tennessee’s Uncle Nearest whiskey
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Learn more about the art and alchemy of blending an award-winning bourbon with Four Roses’ Master Distiller Brent Elliott
Distilled
To some, giving bourbons a second soak in oak is blasphemy. Others just want a second sip of the tasty results.
Drinks
Four barrels, two hurricanes, and one epic yearlong voyage: Two weeks ago, the first leg of Jefferson’s Journey ended with a tasting in Kentucky
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Nick Laracuente surveys Kentucky’s lost distilleries to better tell the stories behind the bottles
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Bill Thomas, owner of Washington, D.C.’s Jack Rose Dining Saloon and a World Whiskey Awards judge, on four small bourbon, rye, and whiskey distillers to try
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Straight talk from a Kentucky source on global tariffs and potential impacts back home
DRINKS
Four bourbon aficionados weigh in on their benchmark bottles, and similar tastes to try
Food & Drink
Clarifying several persistent stories around the South’s favorite spirit
Food & Drink
Know your “single barrel” from your “small batch,” your “age statement” from your “angel’s share”
Drinks
Assistant master distiller Elizabeth McCall expounds on barrel-finished bourbon, the makings of a great mint julep, and why cola is okay as a mixer
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These thirty-two entrants in our Craft Brewery Bracket are making their mark
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After a slow start, the South shows up strong on the national craft-beer scene