For years, bottled-in-bond was a whiskey category that was off limits to most craft distilleries. The reason for this? Most of them didn’t have any whiskey that met its strict definition: exactly 100 ...

Bottled in bond isn't just some marketing term on your whiskey. It turns out that this label is pretty informative. Here's ...

By 1897, Congress had enough of the shenanigans and passed the Bottled-in-Bond Act. While it applies to any aged spirit (including brandy or rum), whiskey was where the act really made its mark.

But barely half a decade later, Tennessee Rye is gone, replaced by Jack Daniel’s Bonded Rye — the same whiskey, but beefed up to 50% ABV per the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897, and adhering to ...