2026 Archive Release Lineup

Our very first whiskey release! Crafted from pale malted barley and matured for 2 years 6 months in charred new American oak. Own a bottle of Copperworks history. 52% ABV.

*This year, we are offering only a single bottle of our earliest American Single Malt Whiskey, Release No. 001. After some discussion around how to give folk the fairest shot at being able to purchase this rare bottle, we've decided to hold a drawing at the end of our archive release sale to give first rights to purchase. Entries for the drawing will be given for each archive bottle purchased.

This release was crafted using our Five Malt recipe and combines seven barrels of Copperworks whiskey matured in new American Oak with a half cask of whiskey matured in a used Oloroso Sherry cask. 47.5% ABV.

This American Single Malt Whiskey is crafted from our Five Malt recipe, which was matured for three years and two months in a new American oak cask and bottled at 59.95% ABV.

This American Single Malt Whiskey is crafted using our Five Malt recipe, which was matured for two years and five months in a new American oak cask before being finished for an additional two months in a previously used Copperworks cask, which had just finished being used to barrel age Three Magnets “Major Tompkins Oatmeal Stout.” 50% ABV.

Part of our Hair of the Dog Brewing cask finished collection, Copperworks Hair of the Dog Matt American Single Malt Whiskey was crafted using Genie barley from Oregon. This single malt whiskey is aged for a little over 3 years in new American Oak barrels with char #2 before finishing for another 8 months in a bourbon cask that once held Hair of the Dog’s Matt American Strong ale. 50% ABV.

Part of our Hair of the Dog Brewing cask finished collection, Copperworks Hair of the Dog Adam American Single Malt Whiskey was crafted using Genie barley from Oregon. This single malt whiskey is aged for a little over 3 years in new American Oak barrels with char #2 before finishing for another 8 months in a bourbon cask that once held Hair of the Dog’s Adam ale. 50% ABV.

Release 040 was made from a single cask of whiskey that was brewed and distilled with 100% of the Copeland variety of barley grown in Washington’s Skagit Valley, then smoked with Washington peat. It was matured for just over five years in a lightly charred, new American Oak cask. The whiskey was bottled at its natural cask strength. 65.5% ABV.

We entered our Copperworks Gin into a Spanish brandy cask for just over two years, then into a Jamaican rum cask for an additional six months. ABV 50%.

In 2017, we emptied a cask of Copperworks Cask Finished Gin and handed the cask over to Elliott Bay Brewing, who then filled the cask with beer to create a barrel-aged version of its Demolition IPA. The barrel was then returned to us.

We filled the barrel with gin, which was left to mature for almost a year, resulting in Copperworks IPA Cask Finished Gin. 50% ABV.

Copperworks Release No. 038 is Copperworks Gin which was finished in a barrel that previously held Bradley’s Kina Tonic, a beloved small batch tonic producer also based in Seattle, Washington. 50% ABV.

Part of our Hair of the Dog Brewing cask finished collection, Copperworks Hair of the Dog Adam Cask Finished Gin was finished for 8 months in a bourbon cask that previously held Hair of the Dog’s Adam ale. 47.05% ABV.