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Byline: BRUCE SCHREINER

12 Feb

published on February 12, 2019 - 1:14 PM

(AP) – Retaliatory tariffs caused a sharp downturn in American whiskey exports in the last half of 2018 as distillers

27 Sep

published on September 27, 2018 - 12:40 PM

(AP) — Kentucky’s bourbon distilleries ratcheted up production again last year, boosting overall inventory to 7.5 million barrels of aging

21 Jun

published on June 21, 2018 - 1:23 PM

(AP) — Much of the rye whiskey aging in hundreds of barrels at Catoctin Creek Distillery in Virginia could end

01 Feb

published on February 1, 2018 - 1:19 PM

(AP) — American whiskey makers toasted another round of robust sales in 2017, stirred increasingly by consumers’ thirst for the

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