Tasting notes

nose

maple candy, banana bread, orchard fruit and light florals

palate

deep honey, coconut macaroon and banana pudding

finish

butter cookie, toasted nuts and sponge cake, with mint and oak lingering

Mash bill

100% Vienna malted barley. A supplier delivered Vienna malt in place of Westward's standard two-row pale malt, and the distillery brewed and distilled it anyway, with the same ale-yeast fermentation and double pot distillation as its Original.

Why it's craft

This whiskey exists because of a delivery mistake: Westward's malt supplier sent Vienna malt in place of the usual pale malt, and the distillery chose to brew and distill it instead of sending it back. It went through the same process as the house Original, from a slow ale fermentation in Portland to double pot distillation and new American oak, so the grain is the one thing that changed.