Pendleton Canadian Whisky (OT)

Hi, Bushido. It's distilled in Oregon, according to this Web site:

which I guess makes it an American Canadian whisky.

BTW, there's another Canadian Canadian on the market called Centennial, which I'm finding quite tasty. It comes out of High River, Alberta, a short drive south of Calgary, and claims to be a small-batch product,

cheers.

bill

Spoke too soon. The wording on the Web site also supports the possibility that it's blended at Hood River, from Canadian products. No hints as to what the components are.

Stumbled across a nice visual typo, though:

which has accidentally switched the illustrations for Pendleton and a nasty-looking fluorescent red iced tea.

Also of interest:

which suggests Pendleton is more of a marketing creation than anything else.

and

which indicates Pendleton long ago stopped producing its own alcoholic beverages and became strictly an importer and distributor, but might be on the road back to producing fruit brandies and the like.

Quite a lot of searching produces no indication of what goes into Pendleton, however.

cheers.

bill

Hi Bill,

My thoughts on the Pendleton were that it was imported in bulk from an established distillery and then bottled in the US. This is done to economize transport and control costs. There are a few of these bottlings floating around like C.E.O. and Campbell & Cooper from Frank-Lin and of course the famous Bush Pilot's.

There might be a good chance that the Pendleton 10yo is the same whisky as the Centennial 10yo from Highwood. There certainly is a thematic kinship between Calgary's rodeo tradition and Pendleton. It is a slightly different kind of Canadian, than I am used to and having never tried anything from the Highwood distillery, it could be. However, the Highwood distillery uses wheat for its base whisky instead of maize and the Pendleton definitely has that vanilla creme element that comes from oak-aged maize.

Sláinte, Bushido