The Brew Site
My latest article for The Bulletin, which published this week, evaluates Black Butte Whiskey, the collaboration from Deschutes Brewery and Bendistillery (from which I’d received samples). Since I normally write about beer for the paper, aside from the obvious beer tie-in of BBW being distilled from a Black Butte Porter … Continue reading
Bend’s Deschutes Brewery and Bendistillery have again teamed up to release Black Butte Whiskey, the American malt whiskey created from the wash of Black Butte Porter. This year, in addition to the standard five-year whiskey, the duo is also releasing a special single barrel cask strength edition, which is 125.8 … Continue reading
Black Butte Whiskey, the collaboration between Deschutes Brewery and Bendistillery, returns for 2020—and this year for the first time, it’s the five-year aged version that will be available starting this Saturday, December 19. The duo first released the whiskey in 2016, in which the Bendistillery distilled a special batch of … Continue reading
Bend’s Deschutes Brewery once again collaborated with Bendistillery to produce a whiskey based on the brewery’s Black Butte Porter, the aptly named Black Butte Whiskey. This third release of the specialty spirit opens to the public on Wednesday, December 5, with bottles going on sale at the Deschutes Bend and … Continue reading
Bend’s Deschutes Brewery and Bendistillery teamed up once again for the second release of Black Butte Whiskey, their American whiskey made with a wash of Deschutes’ Black Butte Porter. (A “wash” is basically the fermented, unhopped wort that gets distilled.) Bottles will be released next week and available exclusively at … Continue reading