Forest Early

Some of the best pours are $30. Some taste like burned socks and cost $300. Hype is just noise. Your palate doesn’t care about status.

Let’s just get this out of the way: don’t fly fish. Seriously. Don’t. It’s a trap. It starts simple. Some quiet afternoon, you see a guy in waders standing midstream, false casting like he’s in a slow-motion cologne commercial. Maybe he’s got a graying beard and a look in his eye like he knows something you don’t. You think: That looks peaceful. That could be me.

Bourbon is more American than Apple Pie any day. Bourbon was crafted as a way to make the best of a bad situation. What they created has defined our nation.