BIRD CREEK WHISKEY
Our story began with a thirst for adventure. We needed to capture the thrill of being out in our incredible environment and cross it with the integrity of our carefully selected ingredients. We wanted to explore what the great northwest could offer in terms of flavor, since it had so much to offer in terms of fun.
Today, we have five barleys from across the upper left, that range from rare to heritage, that include a plethora of beautiful tasting notes. The landscapes where these barleys grow is second to none. Take a trip out to the rolling vistas in the Palouse hills to visit Baronesse or head down to the sprawling valley floors on the west side of the Wallowas to see the waving fields of Francin.
Wherever our whiskey tasting takes you, it's sure to be an adventure.
Non-chill filtered
Bird Creek is deliberately not chill filtered. Chill filtration removes long-chain fatty acid ethyl esters — primarily ethyl laurate, myristate and palmitate, which come from the grain and from barrel wood extractives — by chilling the spirit below freezing and filtering. Those compounds carry a significant portion of a whiskey's aroma, body and mouthfeel, which is why we and many respected distilleries choose not to remove them.
Â
The tradeoff is that those esters have limited solubility at 46% ABV and can come out of solution when the product is exposed to cold — in transit, in an unheated storeroom, or under refrigeration. They form a light, cloudy aggregate that disperses back into the spirit when the bottle is shaken and redissolves entirely when the whiskey returns to room temperature. This is a reversible physical process, not a defect and not a change in the product.
Talk Soon!
Collections
-
All Whiskey
A complete look at the whiskeys that define Bird Creek. From small...
