Chip Tate News Today

Inside the 21-room, multiple-restaurant hotel, where the design is so retro chic it almost feels like ashtrays and cigarette holders are in order.

This week’s meeting of the Madisonville City Council was made up mostly of house keeping issues, including appointing members to several boards and committees, as well as naming a chairperson

We check out a bottle of the Balcones 1 Texas Single Malt whisky, exploring a very Lone Star State spin on the American single malt category.

Craft whiskey acquisitions are heating up. What does that mean for the industry?

Mahr Park Arboretum in Madisonville is calling photographers of all levels to come try their hand in the first annual photography contest.

The rise of the American single malt whiskey showcases innovation in the emerging craft whiskey market as more distillers try their hand at this style.

We review Balcones True Blue 100, an aged corn whisky made from roasted blue corn in Waco, Texas that's bottled at 100 proof.

A young craft whiskey distillery out of the Lone Star State is making available to all comers a single barrel bourbon program.

Colonialism, distilleries, potations, and probity

Chip Tate, former craft whiskey miracle worker for Balcones Distilling, is now on to new ventures. We catch up with him to find out exactly what that is and more.