Long before bourbon dominated the liquor market, rye whiskey reigned supreme. Now, a Midwestern distiller is teaming up with scientists to bring back a long-gone type of grain and turn it into spicy, ...

When Linnda Caporael began nosing into the Salem witch trials as a college student in the early 1970s, she had no idea that a common grain fungus might be responsible for the terrible events of 1692.

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Cereal rye grain possesses many uses within crop and livestock production. Growers make rye part of their corn-soybean crop rotation to boost yields, while ranchers needing an alternative feed might ...

Distillers in Scotland and across Europe have started making their own versions of a whiskey long associated with North America. By Evan Rail FIFE, Scotland — Single-malt whiskies are the pride of ...

Great whiskey requires careful fermentation, quality distillation and patient maturation. But before any of this, it all starts on the farm. At its core, whiskey is an agricultural product built of ...

“Two bottles of rye!,” Ray Milland barks to a liquor-store clerk in Billy Wilder’s classic 1945 film, The Lost Weekend. “The cheapest. None of that 12-year-old chichi aged in wood—not for me.” Though ...

The average whiskey consumer might have a tendency to look at a new series of releases such as the Heaven Hill Grain to Glass series and not quite understand, at a glance, what a radical departure it ...

Allen Katz and Tom Potter founded New York Distilling Company in 2011, and have released a range of gins and rye whiskeys over the past 13 years. The brown spirits are anchored by the distillery’s ...