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Journeyman Distillery Files Four Golf-Heritage Bourbons
Journeyman Distillery has filed four new small-batch bourbon labels with the TTB, each one honoring a chapter of American golf history — from the legendary lost Lido course to the founding of the USGA.
Very Olde St. Nick "Royal Alchemy" 17-Year Files with TTB
Preservation Distillery has filed a new Very Olde St. Nick expression — "Royal Alchemy" — a 17-year Kentucky straight bourbon drawn from vintage casks, approved by the TTB on May 29, 2026.
Dream Spirits Files Three New Blends — Personalized Batches and an Indiana Collab
Dream Spirits, Prav Saraff's DC-area sourcing label, just cleared three TTB approvals in one week: a numbered Kentucky small batch bourbon, a Kentucky straight American whiskey blend, and a 10-year Indiana collaboration with Whiskey Library. Here's what the labels tell us.
Hard Truth's Dark Roast Rye Goes Bottled in Bond
Hard Truth Distilling Co. has filed a COLA for a new Master Distiller's Reserve expression — a Bottled in Bond Dark Roast Rye distilled in 2019 and bottled in 2026 from just 25 barrels. The label reveals a 50/50 blend of roasted and toasted malt straight rye whiskeys, locked in at 100 proof.
1792 Wheated Full Proof & Evan Williams First Run: New COLAs Signal Two Very Different Releases
Two fresh TTB approvals from Kentucky's bourbon belt: Barton 1792 files a wheated twist on its high-octane Full Proof, while Heaven Hill's Evan Williams Bourbon Experience readies an ultra-limited 12-year bottling drawn from just 20 inaugural barrels filled on opening day.
Very Olde St. Nick Files Three New Kentucky Bourbons: Superfreak Lot 2, After Breakfast & It's Good to Be Queen
Preservation Distillery filed three new Very Olde St. Nick labels with the TTB on May 28, 2026: a second lot of the micro-batch Superfreak series, a 17-year single-numbered expression called After Breakfast, and a 10-year unfiltered bottling dubbed It's Good to Be Queen.