Copperworks Distilling Company

Copperworks Distilling Company is the Seattle American Single Malt producer that's quietly built itself into one of the most respected modern American craft whiskey operations on the West Coast — and the distillery whose 2018 American Distilling Institute Distillery of the Year award put Copperworks on equal editorial footing with Westland in the broader Seattle American Single Malt scene. Founded in 2013 by Jason Parker and Micah Nutt in Seattle's downtown waterfront district at 1250 Alaskan Way, Copperworks occupies a production facility and tasting room with views of Elliott Bay and the Olympic Mountains — one of the most visually striking working-distillery locations in any American city. Parker's professional background is editorially significant. Before founding Copperworks, he served as the founding brewmaster of Pike Brewing Company (Seattle's pioneering Pike Place Market craft brewery, opened 1989) and as a longtime production veteran in the broader Pacific Northwest craft-beer industry. That brewing-tradition technical background directly shapes the Copperworks production approach: a brewer's discipline applied to single malt whiskey production, with the same emphasis on malt selection, mash control, and fermentation precision that defines high-quality craft brewing. The technical signature that distinguishes Copperworks is the use of Pacific Northwest brewer's malted barley sourced from regional malting operations — much of it from Skagit Valley Malting and other…