Westland Flagship American Single Malt Whiskey Review
Founded in 2011 they moved to their current distillery in Seattle in 2013. It’s not a huge output by modern standards with around a 260,000 LPA production limit but that didn’t put of Remy Cointreau from buying the distillery in 2017. The distillery highlights locally grown and malted grain and while it does currently use some Scottish peated malt in their flagship malt they are trying to move into using only local peated malt. The Solum expressions actually only use malt peated with Pacific Northwest peat. The Colere expressions explore the impact of different barley varietals and the Garryana expressions explore the use of Garry Oak which is unique to the Pacific Northwest, a bit like Mizunara these are difficult trees to get staves from but Westland believe it is well worth the effort. I was lucky enough to visit the distillery in April of 2025 and the facilities, the ethos and the final products all impressed me greatly. The use of their 5 malt mash bill is unusual...
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