Our interview today is Tyler Pederson, Master Distiller of Westland Distilling. What you're about to see is an unreleased interview from the archives. This was originally recorded January 12th, 2024, when we were still hoping that a release of our Holiday Special in January 2024 made any kind of sense. We've since re-recorded Tyler's segment for the Holiday Special, but the original recording ended up being less on-theme and more just a generally good interview, so we decided to prep that for release as a standalone podcast episode, which is what you're about to see today.
Some of the information in this interview may be slightly out of date as it was recorded almost 2 years ago. This was recorded shortly after Tyler Pederson was named Master Distiller of Westland Distillery and this was actually the 2nd time I'd sat down to interview Tyler Pederson since he landed that title. The first was an unreleased audio-only in-person interview in 2023 mostly aimed at book research, and which resulted in an article on my blog, linked below. Westland is one of those odd cases where I've been in the loop with the distillery for a long time but for one reason or another I haven't released any podcast content with them until recently - but we're fixing that this season!
For more of Tyler, look out for our Holiday Special coming next week, featuring Daniel Whittington (Jacob "Barley"), Caitlin Bartlemay of McCarthy's (Past), Mark Vierthaler of Whiskey Del Bac (Present), and Tyler Pederson of Westland Distillery (Future). You can already catch early edits of each Act of the Holiday Special on our Patreon. More about that after the inteview!
- Westland Solum Edition 1 - peated with American peat from Washington State (but not the Skagit Valley, to clear up my own misconception per to the maltster, Skagit Valley Malting)
- Tyler Pederson: https://www.instagram.com/cerealdistiller
- Westland Distillery: https://www.instagram.com/WestlandWhiskey, https://www.instagram.com/WestlandSeattle
- Blog: Skagit Valley Malting Closure and American Peat: https://demitastes.com/2023/11/10/the-skagit-valley-malting-closure-what-it-means-for-american-peat/
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- More info: https://demitastes.com/2025/03/03/mccarthys-6-71-year-rum-cask-barrel-pick-only-a-few-cases-left/
- Original Announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUL9nEnIvsE&list=PLlkfHesWUpl7ikDZK7JUvD9TokKYC-rYw
- On site interview with the distiller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIYPVxPfY-U
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