Award-winning distillery Copperworks Distilling Co. is excited to announce the second-ever archive release, offering collectors and whiskey enthusiasts a rare opportunity to secure some of its most significant and limited releases from the past.
With even fewer bottles available than last year, this release includes products ranging from Copperworks’ first whiskey, Release 001, to special cask-finished expressions like its Black is Beautiful American Single Malt Whiskey.
This exclusive collection will be available for public purchase on Saturday, March 1.
WHAT
WHEN
Available: Saturday, March 1, 2025
TO PURCHASE: https://store.copperworksdistilling.com/collections/archive-release
DETAILS:
This year’s archive release includes the following limited-edition bottles.
Release 001 – Copperworks’ very first whiskey release, crafted from pale malted barley and matured for 2 years and 6 months in charred new American oak. (Only 4 bottles available) | First Released: August 27, 2016
Release 003 – The first whiskey made with Copperworks’ signature Five Malt recipe, matured in full-sized charred new American oak barrels for 2 years and 10 months. (Only 2 bottles available) | First Released: January 31, 2017
Release 012 – Tastings.com named this release a “2018 Best American Single Malt Whiskey” with 96 points and a Platinum Medal. This American Single Malt Whiskey is a blend of Copperworks’ Five Malt and Pale Malt recipes. (Only 8 bottles available)First Released: June 19, 2018
Release 029 – Created by combining five casks of whiskey distilled from a variety called “Full Pint” – a cask of Copperworks’ Five Malt recipe and whiskey aged in a Cognac cask and finished in an Oloroso Sherry casks. Each of these whiskeys matured for at least 2 years and 7 months prior to creating this release. (Only 15 bottles available) | First Released: February 26, 2020
Release 042 – Created from six casks of Washington State peated whiskey that were matured for more than five years. Brewed and distilled with 100% of the Copeland variety of barley that was smoked during the malting process with peat from a lakebed on the Olympic Peninsula. (Only 12 bottles available) | First Released: February 26, 2022
Moscatel Cask Finished American Single Malt Whiskey – This whiskey was crafted from pale malt that matured for 3 years and 8 months in two new charred American oak casks. The whiskey was then transferred to a Moscatel cask and finished for 11 months. (Only 6 bottles available) | First Released: November 2, 2022
Black is Beautiful American Single Malt Whiskey – In support of the Black is Beautiful initiative, Copperworks teamed up with Garden Path Fermentation, taking a Copperworks Whiskey cask they used to brew a mixed-fermentation imperial stout and using it to finish this Copperworks Whiskey for 105 days. The finished whiskey was initially distilled from Copperworks’ Pale malt recipe and matured for just over 3 years in charred new American oak. $40 of the sale of each bottle will be donated to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. (Only 4 bottles available) | First Released: November 17, 2021
Amaretto Cask Finished Gin – Part of its experimental series, this limited-edition version of Copperworks Cask Finished Gin has been finished for 10 months in a cask that previously held Sons of Vancouver Amaretto. (Only 11 bottles available) | First Released: February 28, 2018
Caol Ila Peated Cask Finished Gin – A limited-edition gin finished in a cask previously holding Caol Ila Scotch Whisky. (Only 16 bottles available) | First Released: October 12, 2021
