TWiB: Fiscal Court regulates bio-digestion facilities, Shiner Bock is now entering bourbon, Pursuit Spirits launches founder hour and more.

It's This Week in Bourbon for November 7th 2025. A Fiscal Court in Eastern Kentucky will regulate bio-digestion facilities, Shiner Bock is now entering bourbon, and Pursuit Spirits launches founder hour and 4 new single barrels.

Show Notes:

• Old Fourth Distillery + Kitchen opens at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport, bringing Southern dining and locally crafted Old Fourth spirits to Terminal E
• Rowan County, KY approved a new ordinance to proactively regulate bio-digestion facilities (for distillery waste) to mitigate nuisances near residential areas
• Molson Coors took a $3.65 billion goodwill charge in Q3, including a $75.3 million write-down on the Blue Run Spirits brand, indicating a significant drop in its valuation
• Pursuit Spirits is launching "Founder Hour," an exclusive, six-person tasting event featuring five of the brand's rarest and oldest Pursuit Series single-barrel whiskeys (up to 20 years old)
• Templeton Distillery releases its inaugural, cask-strength Single Barrel Rye, a 95% rye whiskey distilled and bottled entirely at its Iowa facility
• Jeptha Creed will release its fourth annual Red, White & Blue Batch 4 Bourbon on November 8th, with a portion of proceeds benefiting the veterans' service dog non-profit, Paws of War
• Adventure Spirits Distilling announces its first allocated release, Summit Series #1, a double-oaked, 12-year-old Kentucky American Whiskey limited to 132 bottles
• B. H. James Distillers is celebrating its three-year anniversary by releasing its first in-house distilled Kentucky Grit® Bourbon and a new Burton James® Reserve 10-year-old blend
• Jack Daniel’s is making its iconic Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey permanently available in a large 3-liter bottle across the U.S
• Cedar Ridge Distillery releases its annual Double Barrel Bourbon and limited-edition Double Barrel Rye, both finished in a second, new American oak barrel and bottled at 105 proof
• Brooklyn Brewery and Four Roses reunite for their 7th annual collaboration, releasing the 2025 edition of Brooklyn Black Ops, a 12% ABV Russian Imperial Stout aged in Small Batch Bourbon barrels
• K. Spoetzl Brewery & Distillery (Shiner) enters the whiskey market with Shiner Texas Legend Straight Bourbon, a four-grain, 109-proof, barrel-strength expression
• Old Potrero announces the 2025 release of Christmas Spirit, a highly limited, nine-year-old whiskey distilled from a 2015 Christmas Spiced Ale
• Heaven Hill Distillery will release a special 9-year-old, 107-proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey in October 2025 to commemorate its 90th Anniversary
• Freddie Noe unveils Little Book® The Infinite: Edition II, a 120.8 proof blend integrating 22-year-old, 10-year-old, and 7-year-old bourbons with the original Infinite blend
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