Americans may find themselves paying more for a bourbon neat these days. U.S. whiskey distillers throughout the liquor industry are facing financial hardship lately, and economic experts are pointing ...

The popular distiller of whiskey, vodka, gin, and rum closes its distilleries and tasting rooms. In 2025, U.S. spirits sales and volume declined amid rising costs and changing consumer attitudes ...

Another American spirits maker has gone bust, adding to growing signs that the US whiskey and bourbon boom has sharply reversed. Ohio-based AM Scott Distillery, which filed for bankruptcy on December ...

HALIFAX — A group of U.S. alcohol producers claims Canadian retailers are giving unfair advantage to local spirits, including what it calls "discriminatory" markups in Nova Scotia and other provinces.

You'll have to excuse distillers and spirits makers if they need a stiff drink this holiday season. The past year has dealt makers of whiskey and other liquor a mix of challenges – from Americans ...

The American alcohol industry is grappling with severe financial headwinds as 2025 comes to a close, marked by a wave of bankruptcies and the lowest consumer drinking rates recorded in nearly a ...

A.M. Scott Distillery, which was founded in Troy in 2022, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Dec. 22, according to court records filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District ...

The whiskey distilling industry is hoping for a brighter year in 2026 as it finishes the year with more bankruptcy filings. Whiskey distillers that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2025 included ...

Jim Beam, the nation’s largest maker of bourbon, is halting production at a Kentucky distillery for at least a year as the industry navigates the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and ...

Ever since the tweaks in the liquor laws made distilling in Washington state legal, we’ve seen a pretty wide assortment of spirit and liqueur selections become available. But the highest concentration ...

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