Craft Beer Brands Heading For Whisky

With craft beer taking off around the world today, it has become common for specific beer styles to be aged in oak casks, with nearly half of the top 50 on the global beer list Ratebeer even being aged in whisky barrels.
Similarly, in an attempt to expand the boundaries of whisky flavour, some whiskies have started to use oak casks that have been aged in beer to mature the original spirit for more flavour. It was only much later in popularity than the use of whisky barrels for beer.
As the flavours of whisky and beer continue to move closer to each other, the boundaries between the two industries are becoming increasingly blurred.
Some craft beer brewers will take the initiative to collaborate with whisky distilleries. For example, Flying Dog from Colorado has signed an agreement with Stranahan's Straght whiskey distillery to provide wort to the latter for fermentation and distillation to make whiskey, and both Schneider in Germany and Hitachino in Japan have borrowed from other whiskey distilleries to launch distilled versions of their beers. distilled versions of their own beers.
In addition, beer-based whiskies are distilled at Anchor Distillery's Old Potrero whisky in California, as well as at Rogue in Oregon and Dogfish Head in Delaware.
In fact, both Horned Shark Head and Rogue are breweries that started their distillation programs relatively early. These breweries, which started as beer breweries and added distillation facilities, are known as brewstilleries.
The concept of a Brewstillery is not the same as a traditional Distillery, as the focus of a Brewstillery remains on the beer making business and the spirits are usually only available on a small scale, usually in the Taproom around the brewery.
Just because Squalor Head's Brewstillery's main line of business is in beer, doesn't mean that the whiskies they release can't be out of the loop. In the case of Rogue, for example, the globally renowned craft beer brand has released whiskies that have won awards at the American Craft Spirits Competition as well as the San Francisco World Spirits Competition.
Another very well known craft brand, Brewdog, which draws attention for its unique style, also launched its own distilled spirits spinoff, Brewdog Distillery, in 2016. just because Brewdog is a Scottish brand, it seems that drinkers around the world are expecting the day when Brewdog launches a single malt whisky.
Of course, the above examples of distilleries are not exhaustive and there is now a major trend for beer distilleries to make whisky. It's just that most of the whiskies released by these beer brands today are sold locally and don't really make it to the masses.
Craft beer brands are moving towards whisky, and in turn whisky distilleries are actually being influenced by craft beer, as evidenced by the global response to craft distilled spirits in recent years: whisky distilleries are starting to adopt craft beer malt recipes to explore the flavours of the grains used in whisky making, adding hops to whisky and so on.
Whereas whisky and beer used to be similar only in terms of ingredients, today the two alcoholic beverages have become more intertwined in terms of flavours, techniques, concepts and more. This interplay has also allowed whisky and beer to reveal more of their flavour profiles.