Distiller Notes
2021 San Francisco World Spirits Double Gold Medal Winner
A celebration of Oregon’s legendary brewing culture, this whiskey grew out of their longstanding cask-trading tradition among a select group of beer producers in the Northwest. For as long as they've been making whiskey, Westward has traded their freshly-emptied barrels with some of their brewing friends in and around the Northwest, who have in turn “seasoned” them with Stout before returning them again. Westward Stout Cask Finish begins with Westward American Single Malt, and is then aged for one year in Stout casks.
A popular favorite among emerging niche categories of American Whiskies, American Single Malts now compete with the best from Scotland, Ireland and Japan. American Single Malt Whiskeys must be mashed, distilled and matured at a single distillery and made entirely from malted barley. There are well over one hundred distillers producing a variety of high-quality American Single Malt Whiskeys.