Dry Fly Distilling INC

Dry Fly Distilling is the Spokane, Washington craft American whiskey operation that holds an unusual distinction in modern American distilling history: the first legal grain-to-glass distillery to open in Washington State since Prohibition, founded in 2007 by Don Poffenroth and Kent Fleischmann. The launch predated the broader 2010s craft American distilling boom by several years and put Dry Fly alongside Stranahan's (Colorado, 2004), Peach Street (Colorado, 2005), and Tuthilltown (New York, 2003) as one of the founding-era reference points for the modern American craft whiskey movement on the western half of the country.

The "Dry Fly" name and brand identity reference Eastern Washington's deep fly-fishing heritage — the Spokane River, the Coeur d'Alene River, and the surrounding Inland Northwest river systems are among the most active fly-fishing destinations in the western United States, and Poffenroth and Fleischmann (both serious anglers) built the brand identity around that regional outdoor-recreation cultural context. The fly-fishing imagery runs throughout the brand packaging, the tasting-room aesthetic, and the broader Dry Fly editorial framing.

The technical hook that defines Dry Fly is the brand's exclusive use of locally-sourced Eastern Washington grain. The Palouse region — the rolling wheat-and-grain country surrounding Spokane — is one of the most productive grain-growing regions in the United States, and Dry Fly's commitment to sourcing 100% Palouse-region grain gives the brand a genuine grain-to-glass production claim backed by direct relationships with the surrounding agricultural community. The Triticale Whiskey program in particular has become one of the brand's most editorially distinct products — triticale is a wheat-rye hybrid grain that's grown commercially in the Palouse but rarely used as a primary distilling grain anywhere else in American whiskey.

The product range covers Dry Fly Washington Wheat Whiskey (the flagship — the brand's most-decorated and most-distributed product, multiple international competition winner), Dry Fly Washington Bourbon (a high-wheat-content bourbon distinctive in the broader American bourbon category), Dry Fly Straight Triticale Whiskey, Dry Fly O'Dannigans Irish-Style Whiskey, Dry Fly Single Malt Whiskey, Dry Fly Cask Strength Bourbon, Dry Fly Gin, Dry Fly Vodka, and a substantial range of seasonal and limited cask-finish bottlings. The Spokane visitor experience at 1003 East Trent Avenue runs through the working production floor in the city's emerging Trent Avenue craft-beverage district, walking distance from downtown Spokane and the broader Inland Northwest restaurant scene.