Stein Distillery, INC

Stein Distillery is the Joseph, Oregon craft American whiskey operation that may occupy the most genuinely remote distillery location of any commercial producer in the contiguous United States. Located in Joseph (Wallowa County, deep in the Wallowa Mountains of far northeastern Oregon — a 5+ hour drive from Portland, 3+ hours from Boise, and not on the route between any major Pacific Northwest cities), Stein Distillery operates from a working family-farm property in the small alpine town of Joseph (year-round population approximately 1,100, sitting at the foot of the Wallowa Mountains often called "the Switzerland of America" for the dramatic glaciated peak landscape). The remote geographic isolation defines the brand's editorial identity in a way essentially no other American craft distillery can match. The Stein family has farmed the Wallowa Valley land for multiple generations, and the distillery operation was founded in 2009 as a strategic diversification of the broader Stein family farm business — using the family's grain harvest from the surrounding fields to feed a small-batch craft distilling operation. The grain-to-glass production cycle at Stein is genuinely complete: the family grows the grain in Wallowa Valley fields, distills it at the Joseph distillery, ages the barrels in on-site warehouses, and sells the bottled product through both the Joseph tasting room and the broader regional Pacific Northwest distribution network. The product range covers Stein Distill…