Westland American Single Malt Whiskey

About Westland

Westland Distillery was co-founded by Matt Hofmann in 2010 in Seattle, WA. Westland Distillery mashes, distills, matures and bottles American Single Malt Whiskey in the heart of the Pacific Northwest. Matt Hofmann — Westland’s co-founder, Master Distiller, and honorary pioneer of the American Single Malt whiskey movement — fell in love with the single malt after going to Islay and experiencing the golden drams of Bruichladdich.

The distillery is situated in the SoDo neighborhood of Seattle, Westland’s 13,000 square foot distillery boasts a 5,000 mash-house, five 10,000 liter fermenters and two copper pot stills. It’s here where Hofmann makes the distillery’s core American Single Malt Whiskey. Like single malt Scotch, American single malt whiskey is made using a malted barley, made at a single distillery. American single malt whiskeys, however, are less regulated, allowing more room for experimentation.

"We want to take these things and push them in a new direction," Hofmann says. "We're playing by the same rules as those in Scotland — it's the same four ingredients — but there's so much that's untapped. We do not want to replicate. We want to make an American single malt." Following in the Scottish tradition, the award-winning distillery — producing both peated and unpeated whiskeys.