Andalusia Whiskey Co.

Andalusia Whiskey Co. is the Blanco, Texas craft American whiskey operation that's quietly become one of the most editorially distinct Texas single malt and smoked whiskey producers since opening in 2015. Founded by Tyler Reed and Ty Phelps in the small Hill Country town of Blanco (population approximately 1,800, in Blanco County roughly 50 miles west of Austin and 50 miles north of San Antonio), Andalusia occupies a working distillery and tasting room facility in the heart of the broader Texas Hill Country wine-and-spirits country that anchors the Pedernales River corridor agricultural tourism economy.

The Andalusia editorial identity is built around two distinctive production hooks: 100% malted barley American Single Malt whiskey production (placing Andalusia among the founding-era producers of the American Single Malt category that the U.S. Tax and Trade Bureau formally recognized as a distinct legal category on January 19, 2025), and smoke as a deliberate flavor-development tool across multiple releases. The smoke component is unusual in American craft whiskey — most American distilleries treat peated or smoked whiskey as either a one-off experimental release or a side product, while Andalusia has built its core range around smoke as a primary editorial identity.

The flagship Stryker is a peated American Single Malt that uses Texas-grown malted barley smoked with regionally-sourced mesquite and other native Hill Country woods (rather than the Scottish peat that anchors most peated whiskey). The expanded range covers Andalusia Stryker Peated Single Malt (the flagship — the mesquite-smoked single malt), Andalusia Revenant Oak (an unpeated single malt aged with toasted oak staves), Andalusia Triple Distilled Single Malt, Andalusia Smoke Stack (the cask-strength variant of Stryker), Andalusia Bourbon (the brand's bourbon program), and a rotating range of cask-finish and limited bottlings. The mesquite-smoked production technique gives Andalusia a flavor profile that's genuinely Texas-regional rather than transplanted from Scotch or Irish tradition.

The Blanco visitor experience runs through the working distillery floor and the on-site tasting room. The Hill Country location puts Andalusia within the broader Pedernales River corridor wine-and-spirits tourism cluster alongside Garrison Brothers (Hye, 15 miles west), the surrounding Hill Country wineries, and the small but well-developed Blanco and Wimberley restaurant scenes. For visitors building a Texas Hill Country craft-spirits day, Andalusia is the essential American Single Malt anchor of the entire region.