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The 10 Bourbons We’re Drinking Long After Bourbon Heritage Month

The 10 Bourbons We’re Drinking Long After Bourbon Heritage Month

September Is Bourbon Month. These Bottles Are for the Rest of the Year.

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Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival

Bourbon has never been bigger. And somehow, it still has secrets.

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Hosting is a laborious and often thankless task. Be a better house guest with one of these gifts that go beyond the cliché bottle of wine.

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The Future of Bourbon Is Behind This Door
The Future of Bourbon Is Behind This Door
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The Future of Bourbon Is Behind This Door

Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide

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Wears My Beer: Duluth Trading Co. x Miller High Life Collection
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Wears My Beer: Duluth Trading Co. x Miller High Life Collection

Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival
Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival
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Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

This Los Angeles-Based Microbrand Makes the Best Tool Watch Under $1,000
This Los Angeles-Based Microbrand Makes the Best Tool Watch Under $1,000
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This Los Angeles-Based Microbrand Makes the Best Tool Watch Under $1,000

Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide

Finding Nature and Nurture in Puerto Vallarta
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Finding Nature and Nurture in Puerto Vallarta

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A 3-Week Railway Journey Through Japan

From concerts and sumo matches, to train and taxi rides, In Japan is "a collection of audiovisual moments and memories of a 3-week railway journey through Japan in 2015” that manages to pack more experiences and beautiful scenery into four minutes than you’d find in a feature film or any…

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ZUS Kevlar Charging Cable

ZUS Kevlar Charging Cables can pull 4,000lbs of car, are impervious to cat teeth, assist with 50lb curls and even get the business ends run over by an automobile without losing the ability to charge your Micro USB, Lightning or USB-C devices. Reinforced with Kevlar—yes, the same material you’ll find in bulletproof…

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Carlsberg Father of Quality Lager Is Brewed With Yeast From a 133-Year-Old Bottle

Unbeknownst to most, Carlsberg created a pure yeast over a century ago and distributed it for free to other breweries to combat beer sickness and widespread inconsistencies in repeated brews. The Re-Brew project uses an extracted sample of that original yeast from a 133-year-old Carlsberg bottle recently discovered in an…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Google Home

A little over a year ago, Amazon launched Echo, an always-connected speaker/hub that allowed owners to receive answers to questions, hear the news, get the weather, and much more without pressing a button. Now, Google has released a competitor: Home. Google Home is a similar always-listening speaker that can respond to…

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What Your Girlfriend Wants You to Wear

A large part of the reason we try to look good is to impress the fairer sex. So, it couldn’t hurt every once in a while to get a woman’s perspective on the clothing and accessories she’d prefer. We turned to our friends at Style Girlfriend to do just that. Here…

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