Wright & Brown Distilling Company

Wright & Brown Distilling Company is the Oakland, California craft American whiskey operation founded in 2015 by Daniel Wright and Erik Brown — and one of the founding-era reference points for the modern Bay Area craft American whiskey scene that has grown up around the broader Oakland-and-Berkeley craft-beverage corridor. Located at 1859 Adeline Street in West Oakland (the converted-industrial neighborhood that's become one of the East Bay's most concentrated craft-food-and-beverage zones), Wright & Brown occupies a working distillery, an on-site cocktail bar and tasting room, and a small event-space program in a single integrated facility.

The Wright & Brown editorial identity emphasizes traditional pre-Prohibition American whiskey production techniques and a deliberate focus on serious whiskey-collector-grade output rather than the broader craft-vodka-and-flavored-spirits cocktail-program orientation that anchors much of the modern San Francisco Bay Area craft distilling scene. The brand's flagship Wright & Brown Bourbon is small-batch, bottled-in-bond at 100 proof minimum, aged in new charred American oak barrels — a strict-traditional production approach that positions the brand within the broader American craft whiskey field rather than the Bay Area cocktail-program-forward category.

The product range covers Wright & Brown Bourbon (the flagship — small-batch bottled-in-bond bourbon, the brand's most-distributed product), Wright & Brown Single Barrel Bourbon, Wright & Brown Cask Strength Bourbon, Wright & Brown Rye Whiskey, Wright & Brown American Single Malt Whiskey, Wright & Brown Gin, Wright & Brown Vodka, and a rotating range of seasonal and limited bottlings including barrel-finished and single-cask releases. The bottled-in-bond rigor across the whiskey program in particular has built a regional Bay Area whiskey-collector following that's anchored the brand's editorial credibility in a craft-distilling scene where many producers focus on shorter-aged or non-whiskey categories.

The West Oakland visitor experience runs through the working production floor and the on-site cocktail bar — one of Oakland's more genuinely craft-distillery-focused tasting-room destinations. The Adeline Street location puts Wright & Brown walking distance from the broader West Oakland restaurant cluster, the BART rapid-transit connection to downtown San Francisco, and the surrounding Oakland Arts District. For Bay Area visitors specifically interested in serious American craft bourbon production, Wright & Brown is the natural East Bay anchor of the broader Northern California craft whiskey scene.