Therese teaches Jake the art of distillation. Jake shares with Therese his extensive whiskey collections, illumuniating each sip with stories of all the different whiskeys and their makers.

Making the leap. Mosswood becomes a registered trademark, the entity is established, and we found a cute spot inside a winery on Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA.

Therese at the Federal Building visiting the ABC.

Well, that took 13 months! Crazy amount of waiting time for alcohol license approval. Finally, our facility is inspected and officially issued a license to make some whiskey.

Mosswood Apple Brandy Barrel Aged Whiskey

Mosswood launches with a beautiful inaugural iteration of our Apple Brandy Barrel Aged Whiskey. The whiskey was well received, and we sold out almost immediately.

Locally Roasted & Ground Coffee getting a Cold Brew treatment

Mosswood launches our first ever Espresso Barrel Aged Whiskey. We made cold brew in house and barrel aged ourself back then. We soon find out this is the favorite of our expressions.

San Francisco Cityscape, a view from Treasure Island

Treasure Island was a great place to start, but we soon realize we need a place secured for a longer term. We start looking, and apply for license transfer, taking in the island views in the meantime!

Sherry Barrel Aged Irish Whiskey

Our desire to produce a sherry barrel aged whiskey is realized with the launch of our Irish Whiskey. A depth and complexity is achieved with the sweetness of the Irish (sourced from Cooley Distillery) complimented with the dry, nutty amontillado sherry.

Therese & Jake at Mosswood in Berkeley.

We found the perfect spot and our license transfer is approved! Our current home in Berkeley, CA is great for barrel maturation, and it's a 10 minute bike ride from our house in Oakland.

First release of Sour Ale Barrel

We partner with our neighbors Rare Barrel to age our whiskey in their sour beer barrels. This was a fun collab and could roll the barrel on foot to our warehouse. Now we are excited to work with Drake's Brewery for all our current Sour Barrel releases.

Rotating Barrel Series- Gray Label

Now that we have 4 whiskeys in regular production, we launch a series seasonally inspired. With this rotating gray label, we allow ourselves full creative license. Our first release under this label is a Pinot Noir Barrel finished whiskey! We sourced the barrel from Duckhorn Winery in Napa.

Therese & Jake's Wedding Ceremony

Jake's first proposal was outside of Prizefighter Bar while Therese was unlocking her bike. Although Therese loves Jake (and this bar) very much, she insists he arrange a more thoughtful approach. Third time's a charm! Jake & Therese tie the knot on Liberty Lake, WA where Therese grew up. Tears of joy and Mosswood Whiskey flowed.

Ume Plums

We enjoy making umeshu every year, and finally we have enough to barrel. Our house umeshu seasoned a barrel in which we aged our whiskey! This whiskey launched around cherry blossom season.

Green (young) Walnuts harvested for nocino

Our home in Oakland boasts a giant walnut tree in the backyard. Naturally, we immediately resolved to make booze from it. We barrel age our house nocino and then age the whiskey in the former nocino barrel!

When we get our hands on a good barrel, we typically want to put whiskey in it. Well, we were lucky to find this scotch barrel, and in a reversal of scotch aging process (most scotches are aged in ex bourbon barrels), we age our whiskey in an ex scotch barrel.

After several requests, and our own intrigue, we start aging rum. We launch with Night Rum aged in a vin santo barrel from Piedresassi Winery, and Night Rum aged in an Islay Scotch Barrel.

Day Rum is launched and our light rum is live. We love seeing this blend in many cocktail menus!