New Knob Creek release celebrates Booker Noe’s vision of creating full-flavored bourbon
By John Trump Knob Creek Bourbon is trying something a bit different. It’s not another flavor, i.e., smoked maple, but rather a limited edition Knob...
Zoe and Cloyd release newest album, ‘I Am Your Neighbor’ during IBMA’s 2019 World of Bluegrass annual festival
By Lisa Snedeker If you are attending this week’s International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA)’s World of Bluegrass conference and festival in Raleigh, North Carolina, you hopefully have...
Pickin’ in the Pines returns to Booth Amphitheatre on Sept. 4 with New Reveille and Andrew Duhon
CARY, NORTH CAROLINA — Pickin’ in the Pines returns to the Koka Booth Amphitheatre on Wednesday, Sept. 4, with New Reveille and Andrew Duhon. Shows will take place on Wednesday evenings in September...
Appaloosa Roots Music Festival announces final lineup for fifth anniversary
The final lineup for Scythian’s Appaloosa Roots Music Festival 2019 is here and includes headliners Steep Canyon Rangers, the Dustbowl Revival, Yarn, Humming House, Fireside Collective and...
Celebrate friendship with Laphroaig’s latest peaty, cask-strength offering
On a recent night I opened a sample of Cairdeas Triple Wood from Laphroaig, which produces some of the finest Islay peat monsters available. I...
Knocking on … Heaven’s Door creative cocktails
This summer, Heaven’s Door Whiskey has teamed up with popular spirits mixologist and influencers to create their own recipe using the brand’s core expressions: Tennessee...
Summertime cocktails, and National Tequila Day
Surely, somewhere in the world’ the weather is temperate, cool even. Not in the U.S., though. Combatting the heat just starts with a little imagination...
‘Game-changer’ alcohol bill on Cooper’s desk; governor expected to sign
By John Trump Parity. It’s what North Carolina’s craft distillers wanted most, really. To, in a regulatory and statutory sense, take their place in line...
Uncle Nearest: A wonderful whiskey from a distilling legend
Truth, like the first sip of a splendidly aged whiskey, can be a powerful thing. Sometimes, though, it takes awhile to get there. Uncle Nearest...
Basil Hayden’s marries rye and rum for new Caribbean Reserve Rye
Basil Hayden’s bourbon, the smooth-sipping cousin to barrel-strength behemoth Booker’s, has lately taken a big interest in rye. The Dark Rye and Two by Two...