Heaven Hill Distillery's Mellow Corn is a curious whiskey. Most budget bourbons are bought without much thought, as people are either short on cash or want something to throw in with a mixer. Mellow ...

I’ll admit it, I’m a high-proof whiskey snob. I’ll sip a good cask-strength bourbon all day long — or at least until I fall down from all that alcohol — and when I’m mixing up a rye Manhattan, it’s ...

On a cloudy November morning about seven years ago, I huddled shoulder-to-shoulder with a group of Castle & Key employees inside the distillery’s wrought iron gates. It wasn’t quite winter weather, ...

Usually made with corn mash as its main ingredient (similar to bourbon), moonshine is an unaged whiskey that was historically distilled illicitly by the light of the moon (get it?). It’s pretty much ...

Ashley Day is Food & Wine's associate editorial director. She's edited and directed food and travel content at USA TODAY, the Institute of Culinary Education, and Chef & Restaurant magazine, and ...

Little by little, Georgia’s alcohol artisans are pulling us out from the depths of our dismal Prohibition past. Michael Anderson, co-founder of recently opened Independent Distillery, has joined the ...