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FROM THE BARLIST JOURNAL
From beginner guides to bar selections and distillery stories, our editorial content helps you discover the world behind the bottle.
History
Rye Whiskey tells one of the clearest stories in American spirits history because its rise, disappearance, and revival follow the country’s own shifts in agriculture, law, migration, industry, and bar culture. Before Bourbon became the dominant American Whiskey reference, rye stood at the center of distilling in the Northeast. It belonged to farms, river towns, […]
June 8, 2026
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International Cognac Day is observed each year on June 4, but the spirit it recognizes belongs to a much longer calendar. Cognac is shaped by harvests, distillation seasons, oak maturation, and a legal framework that has turned a regional wine distillate into one of France’s most carefully protected spirits. Its identity begins in the Charente, […]
June 4, 2026
People & Innovation
Long before Chartreuse became a fixture behind cocktail bars and spirits collections, it survived political upheaval, revolution, exile, confiscation, and repeated attempts to separate it from the people who created it. Few products in the spirits world have remained so closely tied to a single religious community for so long. The story of Chartreuse is […]
June 3, 2026
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The southern coast of Islay has long been associated with peat smoke, maritime weather, and some of Scotland’s most influential whisky distilleries. Yet few names have acquired the near-mythical status of Port Ellen Distillery. For more than four decades, the distillery existed in an unusual state: closed, silent, and unable to produce a single drop […]
June 2, 2026
Distilleries & Producers
Few Scotch whisky distilleries have experienced a history as uncertain as Ardbeg Distillery. Today, Ardbeg stands among the most recognisable names in heavily peated whisky, celebrated for expressions such as Ardbeg 10 Years Old, Ardbeg Uigeadail, and Ardbeg Corryvreckan. Yet the distillery’s modern success was far from inevitable. Between the early 1980s and the late […]
June 1, 2026
Distilleries & Producers
Before Speyside became a defined whisky region, distillation across the area existed in fragments. It was local, often unlicensed, and tied closely to farm life. At Cardow, near Archiestown in Moray, whisky production began in 1811, when John and Helen Cumming started distilling on their land. By the time Cardhu Distillery was formally established in […]
May 31, 2026
History
Sheffield built its reputation on steel long before it appeared on any modern spirits map. Cutlery, metalwork, and industrial production defined the city throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Against that backdrop, the establishment of Locksley Distilling Co in 2013 at Portland Works, a Grade II listed industrial site dating back to 1879, reflects a […]
May 30, 2026
Distilleries & Producers
A distillery in Raisio does not begin with history. It begins with decisions. Founded in 2021, Turku Distillery Ltd. stands just outside Turku in southwest Finland, in a region better known for agriculture and industry than for spirits. There is no inherited lineage of stills or warehouses here, no long arc of distillation to draw […]
May 29, 2026
Cocktails
The first months of 2026 have not produced a single defining new cocktail in the traditional sense. Instead, what is emerging is quieter but more revealing. New cocktails in 2026 are appearing through repositioning rather than invention. Existing formats are placed into new settings, familiar structures are adjusted, and ingredients are introduced in ways that […]
May 28, 2026
Distilleries & Producers
There is a point on the Tasman Peninsula where the land gives way almost entirely to the ocean. At 43 degrees south, the air has travelled uninterrupted across the Southern Ocean before reaching the coast. It is here that McHenry Distillery was established in 2010 by Bill and Alison McHenry, creating what is widely regarded […]
May 27, 2026
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