Issue 13: All American
It's the Fourth of July weekend, which means flags on porches, something charring on a grill, and the annual reminder that "Made in America" means a lot more than it used to. So this issue stays home, top to bottom. No Speyside, no Switzerland, no imports. Just corn whiskey, watches built by people who refuse to let American horology die, and cars that are either rolling off a domestic assembly line or being reborn in a shop that never left. Also a plus! At the end of the Newsletter, past the signature, take a look at a pretty exhaustive list of American Brands in each industry!
Whisk(e)y
Poured
Copper & Cask is waving the flag, literally. To mark America's 250th anniversary, the Lawrenceburg, Indiana outfit dropped two limited releases built for the occasion: Wave That Flag, a nine year old low rye bourbon finished in custom Wave Stave char barrels, and Boston Rum Party, a 95% rye whiskey finished over a year in rum casks [1]. Wave That Flag comes in at 117 proof and 3,000 bottles, Boston Rum Party at 120.2 proof and 2,000 bottles, both around $75 [1]. I like a brand that commits to the bit. Calling your rye-heavy whiskey "Boston Rum Party" the same year as the 250th is either very on the nose or exactly the kind of dumb fun this industry needs more of.
Lost Lantern just did something no one else has tried: a bourbon blended from all 50 states. The Vermont-based independent bottler released United States of Bourbon, a single blend pulling barrels from bourbon producers across the entire country, not just the usual Kentucky/Indiana/Tennessee axis, bottled in both a 100 proof version and a cask strength version [2]. They followed it with a companion 250th anniversary blend built specifically from barrels sourced in the original 13 colonies [2]. It's the kind of project that only an independent bottler with serious relationships and zero brand loyalty could pull off, and it turns "American whiskey" from a Kentucky thing into an actual map. If you've ever wondered what bourbon from Texas, New York, and Colorado tastes like sitting in the same glass, this is your answer.
Heaven Hill leaned into the anniversary too. Rittenhouse 10 Year Bottled in Bond Rye got a United States 250th Anniversary commemorative edition, part of a broader "Year of Wheat" push from the distillery this year that also includes a third Grain to Glass wheated bourbon release [3]. Rittenhouse Bottled in Bond is one of the more underrated workhorse ryes out there, the kind of bottle that's better than its price tag has any right to suggest, so a dressed-up anniversary label is a decent excuse to go grab one if you don't already have it in rotation.
Still Austin is making the case for heirloom corn. Their Bottled in Bond Red Corn Bourbon hit distilleries June 6th and is rolling out nationally now: 100 proof, 7 years old, and built on a mash bill that's more than a third Jimmy Red Corn, a nearly extinct heirloom variety getting a second life through small Southern distillers [1]. If you've been chasing the "terroir in bourbon" conversation, this is a cheap way into it without spending BTAC money.
Watches
Worn
American watchmaking is having a real moment. Plainly: this isn't a marketing angle, it's an actual industry rebuilding itself from close to zero. Once upon a time (In a galaxy far far away), Elgin, Waltham, and Hamilton made the U.S. a horological power. Then it all went to Switzerland and Japan, and for most of the 20th century "American watch" meant assembled-overseas-with-an-American-logo. That's changing, slowly and stubbornly, but it's worth knowing the names doing it for real.
RGM celebrates Yellowstone National Park’s 150th Anniversary (1872-2022)
RGM, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Roland G. Murphy trained as a watchmaker, did time as Hamilton's technical manager, then went out on his own in 1992 in one of America's old watchmaking corridors. In 2008 he built Caliber 801, the first high-grade mechanical movement made on U.S. soil in over 40 years, with nearly every component domestically sourced [4]. He followed it with the Pennsylvania Tourbillon in 2010 and a tonneau-shaped moonphase caliber in 2016 that revived the "motor barrel" friction-reducing system, a 19th-century American railroad watch invention [4]. His team still hand-executes guilloché on antique rose engines, the same decorative technique used on old pocket watch dials, and they'll build full bespoke pieces to spec for collectors who want something beyond the catalog. This is the closest thing the U.S. has to genuine haute horology, made the hard way, in a building you could drive to from most of the East Coast. Now, this comes at a cost. You’re looking at mid 4 figures, upwards of mid 5 figures.
The Chicago 118
Vortic, Fort Collins, Colorado. Started by three Penn State students in 2013 with a simple, slightly insane idea: take antique American pocket watch movements, Elgin, Waltham, Hamilton, the ones stripped from gold and silver cases decades ago and otherwise headed for scrap, and rehouse them in modern, American-made wristwatch cases [5]. They've since added CNC-machined cases alongside the original 3D-printed ones, and they source the crystals and straps domestically too [5]. The result is a watch that's literally a second life for American industrial history, and one of the only wristwatch manufacturers actually building, by hand, in the United States [5]. They also run a "Convert Your Watch" program for people sitting on a family heirloom pocket watch that's never going to get worn again as-is, which is a genuinely nice thing to be able to offer somebody. The Military Edition, built from WWII-era U.S. Army Air Corps pocket watches, drops every year on Veterans Day and tends to sell out within hours. Their watches are mid to high 4 figures.
Weiss, Nashville Tennessee. Cameron Weiss trained at WOSTEP, worked at Audemars Piguet, then came home and built a brand around classic field watches with an in-house caliber and components made almost entirely from American suppliers [4]. The brand originally started in Los Angeles, CA before moving to Nashville, TN. LA has quietly become a small hub for this kind of work, the same creative density that pulls in designers pulls in watchmakers willing to do things the hard, hands-on way [4]. Weiss floats around low to mid 4 figures.
Final Thoughts:
None of these three rival Switzerland on scale, and that's not really the point. What they share is a refusal to outsource the hard parts: movements, cases, dials, all built or restored on American soil by people who could make more money doing it the easy way and chose not to. It's small, stubborn, proud-of-where-it's-from work. If you're shopping this weekend, RGM is the haute horology end, Vortic is the history nerd's entry point, and Weiss is the most wearable (and slightly more affordable) daily option of the three.
Wheels
Driven
The most American cars on sale right now might surprise you. Cars.com just dropped its 21st annual American-Made Index, timed deliberately ahead of the 250th, and the headline is one Detroit loyalists won't love: Tesla's Model 3 and Model Y take the top two spots for the sixth year running, the Jeep Gladiator and Grand Cherokee round out three and four, and Honda sweeps half the rest of the top 10 with the Ridgeline, Odyssey, Accord, Passport, and Acura MDX [8]. The index scores on five factors, assembly location, U.S./Canadian parts content, engine and transmission sourcing, and domestic factory employment, and this year's top 10 tied the highest average domestic parts content the index has ever recorded [8]. Worth knowing: 71% of shoppers assume the F-150 is the most American truck you can buy. It's not even close to the top of the list [8]. Roughly two thirds of the vehicles on this year's full list of 86 actually come from foreign-headquartered automakers, which says less about loyalty and more about how genuinely scattered global supply chains have become; Toyota alone has more vehicles on the index than any single brand. Tariffs have also thinned the field, 86 qualifying vehicles this year versus 99 last year, as some EVs and lower-volume models got discontinued or shuffled, and the number of EVs on the list dropped by nearly half since the federal tax credit sunset last fall. Badge nationalism has never mapped cleanly onto where the bolts actually get turned, and this year proves it harder than most.
Anyone got 300k for me?
If new isn't your thing, the restomod shops are where the real American car culture is happening. Velocity Restorations, out of Pensacola, Florida, now builds across seven classic American nameplates, but the Mustang and F-100 are still the ones worth a special trip: Roadster Shop chassis, Ford's Gen III 5.0 V8, modern brakes and suspension wrapped around a body that looks like 1969 never ended [6]. Gateway Bronco, based in Hamel, Illinois, right off Route 66, was the first Ford-approved Bronco restomod shop in the world and builds three trims, Fuelie, Coyote, and the top-line Luxe GT, the last one running a supercharged 5.0 with full ride control. And out in Oklahoma, Classic Recreations, licensed directly by Ford, just dropped a twin-turbo Coyote V8 into a '69 Mach 1 build nicknamed "the Hitman" and got 1,000 horsepower out of it [7]. A four-figure horsepower number out of a body style older than the interstate highway system might be the most American sentence I write all year. Now, full disclosure. These. Are. Not. Cheap. You’re looking at $300k+.
Photos from SF!
Kindred Motorworks is doing this out of an old Navy shipyard, which feels right. The San Francisco-area outfit builds first-generation Ford Bronco restomods, along with a VW Bus and a Chevy Camaro, out of a 105,000 square foot former naval building on Vallejo's Mare Island, the same kind of facility that used to turn out submarines, now turning out 460 hp Coyote V8 Broncos with a 10-speed automatic and a proprietary build process they call Blueprint instead of one-off custom work [20]. Prices start around $169,000 and climb from there depending on trim, but the process is the differentiator: roughly 1,500 hours of hands-on labor per vehicle, no robots, a crew that finds and restores its own donor trucks rather than working off customer-supplied ones [20]. I got to see a few in person in San Francisco at WindUp recently and they're honestly perfection. I’d be all over these if I had that type of money.
Final Thoughts: Between the three stories, the actual takeaway for this weekend is simple: if you're buying new and care about where your money lands, the badge on the hood means a lot less than it used to. And if you're not buying new, there's a whole cottage industry of American shops happy to take something old and make it better than it ever was.
Outro: Have a good one this weekend. Grill something, drink something brown, and go for a spin. Before the brown juice though… Lets be responsible. And stay safe in the heat everyone! I am hoping to catch the ships sailing up the Hudson River on Saturday. I love a good old ship! Cheers!
-Mark
Poured. Worn. Driven.
Wristmas & The W’s
The Lists: Poured, Worn, Driven — All American Edition
The newsletter above covers what's new. This is the reference dump: the most complete rundown I can put together of American whiskey by state, American watch brands by how genuinely domestic they are, and cars actually assembled on U.S. soil. Bookmark it, it's long on purpose.
American Whiskey, State by State
A caveat before this list: there is no way to make this truly complete. Distillery Trail's directory alone tracks more than 2,295 active U.S. distilleries, including 164 in California, 164 in Kentucky, and 94 in Colorado [9]. The American Distilling Institute counts well over a thousand of those as actively producing whiskey specifically. A lot of these are one-person operations selling 200 bottles a year out of a tasting room that may not exist by the time you read this. What follows is the deepest version of this list I can responsibly put together: every state, with as many genuinely operating whiskey producers named as I can verify, not just the one or two famous names.
Alabama — John Emerald Distilling Co., Dread River Distilling Co., Gibson Distilling Co., Big Escambia Spirits, Irons One Distilling, Black Patch Distilling Co., Clyde May's, Yellow Hammer Spirits
Alaska — Alaska Distillery, Port Chilkoot Distillery, Anchorage Distillery, Amalga Distillery, Arctic Harvest, Fairbanks Distilling Co.
Arizona — Whiskey Del Bac, Arizona Distilling Co., Thumb Butte Distillery, San Tan Spirits, Wild Hare Distillery, Desert Diamond Distillery, Elgin Distillery, SēL Instrument (custom/craft), Adventurous Stills, Tombstone Distillery
Arkansas — Rock Town Distillery, Delta Dirt Distillery, White River Distillery, Core Distilling Co.
California — Charbay, St. George Spirits, Lost Spirits Distillery, Sonoma County Distilling Co., Alley 6 Craft Distillery, Anchor Distilling (Old Potrero), American Craft Whiskey Distillery (Low Gap), Seven Stills, Paso Robles Craft Distilling, Corbin Cash Distillery
Colorado — Stranahan's, Laws Whiskey House, Woody Creek Distillers, Leopold Bros., Breckenridge Distillery, Peach Street Distillers, Spirit Hound Distillers, Boulder Spirits, Golden Moon Distillery, Feisty Spirits Distillery, Syntax Spirits, Spring44 Distilling
Connecticut — Litchfield Distillery
Delaware — Painted Stave Distilling, Dogfish Head Distillery
Florida — St. Augustine Distillery
Georgia — 13th Colony Distilleries, ASW Distillery, ASW Fiddler Distillery
Hawaii — Ko'olau Distillery
Idaho — Idaho Whiskey, Bardenay Distillery, Koenig Distillery, Day's Defile, Backwards Distilling Co.
Illinois — Koval Distillery, FEW Spirits, Whiskey Acres
Indiana — MGP/Ross & Squibb (the largest contract distiller in the country, the unseen source behind a huge share of independent bottlers), Starlight Distillery, West Fork Whiskey Co., Hotel Tango, Bear Wallow Distillery
Iowa — Cedar Ridge Distillery, Iowa Legendary Rye
Kansas — Union Horse Distilling Co., Boot Hill Distillery
Kentucky — Buffalo Trace, Wild Turkey, Heaven Hill, Four Roses, Maker's Mark, Woodford Reserve, Jim Beam, Bardstown Bourbon Co., Michter's, Old Forester, Rabbit Hole, Green River, Willett, New Riff, Whiskey House of Kentucky, Jackson Purchase Distillery, James E. Pepper, Lux Row, Castle & Key, Stitzel-Weller, Loch & Union Distilling Co.
Louisiana — Atelier Vie
Maine — Liquid Riot, Sweetgrass Farm Winery & Distillery
Maryland — Baltimore Spirits Company, Sagamore Spirit
Massachusetts — Berkshire Mountain Distillers, Triple Eight Distillery, Treehouse Distillery
Michigan — Journeyman Distillery, Grand Traverse Distillery
Minnesota — 11 Wells Distillery, Far North Spirits
Mississippi — Cathead Distillery
Missouri — Pinckney Bend, Copper Run Distillery
Montana — RoughStock Distillery, Montgomery Distillery
Nebraska — Cut Spike Distillery, Long Dogs Distilling, Brickway Distillery
Nevada — Las Vegas Distillery, Verdi Local Distillery, Minden Mill Distilling, Frey Ranch Distillery
New Hampshire — Tamworth Distilling, Cathedral Ledge Distillery
New Jersey — Jersey Artisan Distilling, Sourland Mountain Spirits, Asbury Park Distillery, Silk City, 3BR, Colts Neck Stillhouse,
New Mexico — Santa Fe Spirits
New York — Hudson Whiskey (Tuthilltown Spirits), Kings County Distillery, Taconic Distillery, Black Button Distilling, Coppersea Distilling, Tenmile Distillery, Black Dirt Distillery,
North Carolina — Defiant Whisky, Doc Porter's Distillery, Broad Branch Distillery
North Dakota — Proof Artisan Distillers
Ohio — Middle West Spirits, Watershed Distillery, Cleveland Whiskey, Tom's Foolery Distillery
Oklahoma — Skeleton Key Distillery
Oregon — Westward Whiskey, Ransom Spirits, McCarthy's (Clear Creek/Hood River Distillers), Oregon Spirit Distillers
Pennsylvania — Dad's Hat Rye, Wigle Whiskey, Liberty Pole Spirits
Rhode Island — Sons of Liberty Spirits Co., South County Distillers
South Carolina — High Wire Distilling Co.
South Dakota — Dakota Spirits Distillery, Blackfork Farms
Tennessee — Jack Daniel's, George Dickel, Uncle Nearest, Nelson's Green Brier, Chattanooga Whiskey, Davidson Reserve, Corsair Distillery, Leiper's Fork Distillery
Texas — Garrison Brothers, Balcones, Still Austin, Ironroot Republic, Yellow Rose Distilling
Utah — High West Distillery
Vermont — Lost Lantern (an independent bottler rather than a distillery, but the project that anchors this whole list), WhistlePig, Stonecutter Spirits
Virginia — Virginia Distillery Co., A. Smith Bowman, Catoctin Creek, Belle Isle Craft Spirits, Reservoir Distillery
Washington — Westland Distillery (the standard-bearer for American single malt), Copperworks Distilling, Woodinville Whiskey Co.
West Virginia — Smooth Ambler Spirits
Wisconsin — Death's Door Spirits, Yahara Bay Distillers, Wollersheim Distillery
Wyoming — Wyoming Whiskey
If a state you care about is thin on this list, it isn't because nothing's happening there, it's because verified, currently operating, nationally known producers are genuinely sparse in a handful of states. If you're hosting this weekend and want an actual coast-to-coast flight instead of three pours of Kentucky in a row, this is the map to work from.
American Watch Brands, by Manufacturing Tier
The FTC's "Made in USA" standard requires that all or virtually all components be sourced and produced domestically, which almost nothing in the watch industry can actually claim. So this list is organized by how close each brand gets, from full in-house manufacturing down to American final assembly with imported parts.
Fully manufactured in the U.S. (movement designed and built domestically):
RGM Watch Co. — Lancaster County, PA — in-house Caliber 801, Pennsylvania Tourbillon, Caliber 20 moonphase
Weiss Watch Company — now based in Nashville, TN (originally LA) — in-house Caliber 1003, roughly 95% American-made
J.N. Shapiro — Los Angeles, CA — in-house movement architecture, signature "Infinity Weave" guilloché
Keaton Myrick — Portland, OR — fully independent, hand-built Caliber 29.30 and successors
Restored/converted American movements (vintage American calibers in new domestic cases):
Vortic Watch Co. — Fort Collins, CO — restores Elgin, Waltham, and Hamilton pocket watch movements into modern cases built entirely in the U.S.
American-assembled with imported movements (confirmed final assembly on U.S. soil):
Vaer — Venice, CA — Japanese quartz and solar quartz, Swiss Sellita automatic in the GMT line; by their own account, the largest independent watch assembler in the United States, fulfillment out of Kansas City, MO [12]
Shinola — Detroit, MI — Swiss movement-maker Ronda AG partnership, largest-scale American watch assembly operation
Astor + Banks — Chicago, IL — assembled in-house at the Chicago HQ, though components are currently Asian- and European-made [13]
Nodus — Los Angeles, CA — designed and assembled at LA headquarters, Seiko automatics
Mk II — Pennsylvania — hand-assembled since 2002, movements tested and regulated domestically, high-end Benchrafted line
Oak & Oscar — Chicago, IL — Swiss automatic movements hand-assembled, tested, and regulated in Chicago, mounted on American-made Horween leather straps [13]
Brew — New York, NY — final assembly confirmed in the U.S. (reporting differs on whether that's New York directly or an Arizona-based assembly partner), movements primarily Seiko and Sellita, cases and dials sourced from Asia
Resco Instruments — Coronado, CA — founded by a retired Navy SEAL, designed, assembled, and tested domestically
DuFrane — Austin, TX — Swiss movements, American assembly and design
S&B (Smith & Bradley) — American assembly, Swiss movement
Vero — Portland, OR — produces its own dials, assembles every finished watch in-house, Swiss-regulated movements
Detroit Watch Company — Detroit, MI — designed and hand-assembled locally, Swiss and Japanese movements
Talley & Twine — Portsmouth, VA — designed and assembled in the U.S., Asian parts
Throne — New York, NY — started as a strap maker in 2013, expanded into full timepieces
Autodromo — automotive-inspired design and American assembly
Jack Mason — Dallas, TX — designed in Dallas, assembled in the U.S., Sellita and Miyota movements
Haven — Fort Wayne, IN — vintage-inspired chronographs, builds as much as possible domestically
Historic American brands, no longer domestically made:
Hamilton — moved production to Switzerland between 1969 and 1980, now part of Swatch Group
Bulova — Japanese-owned (Citizen Watch Co.) since 2008
Timex — manufacturing now spread globally (Philippines, China, Hong Kong, India, France, Switzerland), though the brand was founded in Connecticut in 1854 and remains a household American name
Elgin, Waltham, Gruen — defunct as manufacturers; their original movements live on inside Vortic's restorations
If you're buying this weekend: RGM or Weiss if you want a genuine piece of American haute horology, Vortic if you want history on your wrist, and Brew, Vaer, Nodus, Astor + Banks, or Oak & Oscar if you want something well-built and wearable with confirmed U.S. assembly behind it.
Cars With U.S. Final Assembly, by State
This covers final assembly location only, not full domestic parts content, which is a different and more complicated number tracked separately by the NHTSA's AALA reports and summarized annually in Cars.com's American-Made Index. There are 119 vehicles for the 2026 model year assembled solely in the U.S., with another 17 split between domestic and overseas lines. Here's the rundown by state.
Alabama — Honda Passport (Lincoln), Hyundai Santa Fe, Santa Fe Hybrid, Tucson, and Santa Cruz (Montgomery), Mercedes-Benz GLE, GLS, and EQS SUVs (Vance), Mazda CX-50 (joint venture with Toyota, Huntsville)
California — Tesla Model 3 and Model Y (Fremont)
Georgia — Hyundai IONIQ 5 (Ellabell), Kia EV6 and EV9 (West Point)
Illinois — historic Stellantis assembly; Rivian (Normal)
Indiana — Toyota Camry and Sienna (Princeton), Honda Ridgeline and Odyssey (Lincoln, Indiana), Subaru Legacy, Outback, Impreza, and Ascent (Lafayette)
Kentucky — Chevrolet Corvette (Bowling Green), Lincoln Navigator (Louisville), Toyota Camry (Georgetown), Ford Escape and Bronco Sport (Louisville)
Michigan — Ford F-150 (Dearborn), Ford Bronco (Wayne), Jeep Grand Cherokee (Detroit)
Missouri — Ford F-150 (Claycomo)
Ohio — Honda Accord and Acura MDX (East Liberty), Jeep Gladiator (Toledo), Honda CR-V (Marysville)
South Carolina — BMW X3, X5, X6, and X7 (Spartanburg, one of the largest auto export plants in the U.S. by dollar value)
Tennessee — Nissan production (Smyrna), Volkswagen ID.4 and related models (Chattanooga)
Texas — Tesla Model Y (Austin Gigafactory), Toyota Tacoma and Sequoia (San Antonio)
The top of the actual 2026 American-Made Index, which weighs assembly location alongside parts sourcing, engine and transmission origin, and domestic workforce, runs Tesla Model 3 and Model Y at one and two, Jeep Gladiator and Grand Cherokee at three and four, then a long stretch of Honda and Acura models (Ridgeline, Odyssey, Accord, Passport, MDX) filling out most of the rest of the top 10. Only six of the top 20 vehicles on the full index come from what most people would call an "American" automaker. The rest is Honda, Acura, Toyota, Lexus, and a scattering of others, all building real cars with real American workers, just under badges that don't say it on the hood.
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