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Lost Lantern 2026: Broad Branch Bourbon, Dread River & Reservoir Rye
Four TTB approvals filed June 4–5 signal an imminent Lost Lantern 2026 Single Cask wave covering three partner distilleries and four states — highlighted by the brand's first-ever Alabama whiskey, from Birmingham's Dread River Distilling Co.
TTB Roundup: Four Roses Experiment No. 003 & Lost Lantern's First Virginia Cask
Three June 2026 COLA approvals worth watching: Four Roses files Experiment No. 003 (Chestnut Cask Finish) to extend its Experimental Series, and Lost Lantern debuts its first Virginia straight bourbon from Richmond's Reservoir Distillery.
California Bourbon Gets Serious: Redwood Empire's Purple Corn Single Barrel & Corbin Cash's First BIB
Two California distilleries just cleared the TTB on the same day — Redwood Empire with a purple corn single barrel carrying a precise 7-year-8-month age statement, and Corbin Cash with a sweet mash Bottled-in-Bond that makes a pointed argument for what California bourbon can be.
Holladay Files Three: Ancient Cave Double Oaked and New 4-Year Entries for Both Brand Names
Holladay Distillery in Weston, Missouri just picked up three new COLA approvals in a single week: a cask-strength, double-oaked addition to its Ancient Cave Collection and a pair of matching 4-year, 80-proof entries filed under both the Holladay and Ben Holladay brand names.
Heaven Hill Signature Series Four Grain: A Brand-New Mashbill Built for the Springs Distillery
Heaven Hill just filed a COLA for the inaugural release of its new Signature Series — a four-grain Kentucky straight bourbon aged six years and sold exclusively at its freshly opened Springs Distillery in Bardstown.
Heaven Hill Phoenix: An 18-Year Bourbon (Blended with Pre-Fire 30-Year-Old Bourbon) Rises from the Ashes
Heaven Hill just filed a COLA for "Phoenix," a Kentucky Straight Bourbon mingling 18-year-old stock with surviving pre-fire 30-year-old bourbon from the original Old Heaven Hill Springs Distillery — a direct tribute to the catastrophic 1996 fire and the distillery's decades-long rebuild.
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.