West End Blog

Bottles released July 14, 2023

Athens West End Straight Bourbon Whiskey – 77 months

Aged in Independent Stave Company #3 Char, 53 gallon, Coopers Select barrel, with 18 month

seasoned staves, for 6 1/2 years in our Meigs rickhouse. Barrel was filled with 65% raw spirit on

1/11/2017. Dumped 7/11/2023. After aging 78 months ... Read More

We squeeze a lot of lemons at the distillery for the fresh juice used in the legendary cocktails at Ciderhouse. After 8 years of composting the remaining rinds we decided we should put all the future zest to a better use. I’ve been wanting to make a limoncello for a ... Read More

Athens West End Distillery

Straight Bourbon Whiskey

6.5-Year-Old

Mash Bill:

55% Open pollinated, yellow dent, field corn grown by Cowdery Family Farms in Longbottom Ohio.

45% Organic 2-row barley malt from Briess Organics in Chilton Wisconsin

Aging:

Barreled 60 gallons on 12/9/2015 in two, thirty-gallon Barrel Mill #3 char barrels at 65% ABV

Dumped 42 gallons on 6/9/2022 ... Read More

Athens West End Distillery

Straight Malt Whiskey

6.5 Year Old

Mash Bill:

100% Organic 2-row barley malt from Briess Organics in Chilton Wisconsin

No Peat Malt or peat character

Aging:

Barreled 60 gallons on 12/9/2015 in two, thirty-gallon Barrel Mill #3 char barrels at 65% ABV

Dumped 15 gallons on 6/9/2022 at 78 months, 63% ABV

Bottling:

Bottled on 10/21/2022 ... Read More

Kingston Black

1. 75 trees. 18 bushel. 2.5gal/bushel. 45 gal. year 6. 17.3 P. small dry picked late. Nov 18

2021 75 trees. 40 bushel. 3.4gal/bushel. 135 gal. year 7. 13.6 P. small picked early. Sept 13

Roxbury Russet

2021 75 trees. 135 gal. 40 bushel. 14.5P. Nov 5 harvest

The Athens West End Ciderhouse started ... Read More

Athens West End Distillery Malt Whiskey

May 11, 2021

Our first barrel of Malt Whiskey is made from 100% Organic 2-row barley from

Briess Organics. This grist was mashed and lautered then fermented. This ferment

was distilled twice, starting with a wash run with no cuts then the second and final

rectification run with 4 ... Read More

As we were laying out our first label for approval, we decided to use the term Original Distillation (coined by the Fed Govt) to define our process. I felt this phrase had a story that needed telling, and using this statement on the label was a subtle way of starting ... Read More

Sorghum and Rum, two words you generally don’t hear together. At the federal government level The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, the TTB, define “Rum” as “Spirits distilled from the fermented juice of sugar cane, sugar cane syrup, sugar cane molasses or other sugar cane by-products at less ... Read More

As a profound lover of beer and a craft brewer since 1996, I know the difference between a true craft beer and Blue Moon or Land Shark. I would never expect in a million years to go into a brewpub, order a beer and discover it was actually brewed by ... Read More

Dancing Tree Distillery was founded by Kelly Sauber in 2011 with the intent to make exceptional local spirits. Kelly was, as he says “born and bred” in Athens, Ohio. Dancing Tree became West End Distillery in 2018 and is now located just a few hundred feet away from the Read More