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What a listing means, where each fact comes from, and what happened to every business we checked.
What a listing means
- The business holds a distilled-spirits permit on TTB's List of Permittees (Spirits Producers and Bottlers, as of October 5, 2026). The permit shows where it holds the permit, not what it makes there.
- Its own website lists the rye whiskey shown, by name, with "rye" and "whiskey" or "whisky" in the name or the phrase "rye whiskey" close by.
- "Distilling at its own premises" appears only with a quoted sentence placing distilling at the business's premises ("right here", "on site", "in-house", "at our … distillery"): 4 of 52. "Says it distills its own whiskey" appears with a quoted sentence about who distills it but not where: 7 more. Otherwise the listing says we couldn't establish who distills the rye or where. A rye listed by a business may be distilled elsewhere, blended, finished or bottled by it.
- Each listed rye is shown as its product name quoted from the page, and a sentence is shown under a product only if it names that product (and the right variant, such as bonded or an age). 4 listings have at least 2 such sentences and get their own page.
Sources
- TTB: legal names, operating names, permit numbers and premises addresses from the Spirits Producers and Bottlers CSV (5,565 permits).
- The businesses' own websites: rye names and quoted facts, fetched October 12, 2026 with an ordinary browser user agent and no cookies. We never answer, click through or bypass an age check, and we don't use content that appears only after one.
- eCFR: 27 CFR 5.143, 5.74 and 5.88, re-checked word for word on October 12, 2026.
- US Census Bureau, a geography source for the Ohio ZIP finder only; no business or rye facts come from it: the 2024 Gazetteer ZCTA file (
2024_Gaz_zcta_national.zip), fields INTPTLAT and INTPTLONG (each ZIP Code Tabulation Area's internal point), rounded to 3 decimals. ZCTAs approximate postal ZIP codes; PO-box ZIPs often have none. Distances are our calculation, not source facts.
Every business we checked
We started from 242 TTB permittees: every Ohio permittee, plus selected permittees in other states with rye whiskey brands we knew to look for. Web research proposed a website and rye page for 73 of them; a script then re-fetched every page and confirmed 54. Where two permittees share one website, they're shown as one listing, which leaves 52 listings. Every candidate's outcome:
| Outcome | Permittees |
|---|---|
| Not a lead: research found no rye whiskey on its site | 79 |
| Not a lead: research found no website | 77 |
| Listed | 52 |
| Checked, not listed: no rye whiskey confirmed on the business's own pages | 9 |
| Not a lead: research found the site down | 8 |
| Checked, not listed: no rye whiskey confirmed in a plain page load; the site shows an age gate | 8 |
| Not a lead: research found only an age gate | 3 |
| Checked, not listed: the TTB permit's city or street doesn't appear on the website | 2 |
| Listed, merged with another permittee that shares its website | 2 |
| Not a lead: rye found only on a parent-company or retail site (parent-company spec sheet, not a site for this permit's business) | 1 |
| Not a lead: rye found only on a parent-company or retail site (parent company retail site, not the business's own distillery site) | 1 |
| Total | 242 |
"Checked, not listed" doesn't mean a business doesn't make rye; we couldn't confirm a listing from its own pages under these rules. Each candidate and its outcome is in the dataset.
Quoted facts and pages
For each listing we read up to about two dozen pages of its own site (product, process, about and visit pages) and kept whole sentences that mention rye or a listed rye and state a proof, an age, a grain recipe, bottled in bond, a production step or a dated history. We read every extracted sentence and wrote down review rules (11 rules, such as dropping awards, cocktail suggestions, general definitions and recipes for bourbons) plus 30 individual rejections, each with a reason, in the build's review file. 4 listings have at least 2 reviewed sentences that name a listed rye and get their own page; the rest appear only in the directory. Before each build a script re-checks every rye listing, quoted fact and permit against the live pages and TTB's list.
Dataset
Download the frozen data: ryewhiskeyrevival-2026.json, sha256 ac5ffcbe141eca69d6a54f2f17be13e3df9e7eb3d694844e189ae682bd7a810c. It has the TTB rows, the rye listings with their source pages, every extracted fact with its page, and all 242 candidates with outcomes.
Privacy, ads and analytics
The ZIP finder does its math in your browser. Its input has no form name and stays switched off until the page's script is running, so the ZIP isn't put in the page address or submitted; the page remembers it only in this tab's session storage. Separately, the site uses Google Analytics and shows Google AdSense ads. Those services collect visit and device information and set cookies or similar identifiers, as described in our privacy policy. Our server, like any web server, receives the addresses of pages you load.
Corrections
If you run one of these businesses and a listing is wrong, or your site lists a rye we missed, tell us through North Coast AI with a link to the page that shows it. We never charge for a listing or a correction.
Who makes this
Rye Whiskey Revival is published by North Coast AI LLC in Ohio. It isn't affiliated with TTB or any business listed. It was built with AI assistance and reviewed by Bill Burkey.