Carve your own path
Arnold, California · 4000 FT · Sierra Nevada
The name
The house behind the house
In German, hinterhaus is the rear building — workshop, still, quieter room. Bonnie and Nate Randall built that house at four thousand feet in Arnold. The lake, the timber, and the granite are the work, not a backdrop for it.
HIN·TER·HAUS — rear building, house at the back
Open air
The pot still sits in the weather
American Single Malt here is fermented in the open so Arnold’s flora can reach the wash. Local barley, Sierra water, elevation. Discovery prints the maltbill on the back label because the batch is the point.
From the bottle — open fermentation, mountain water, a provenance you can nose.
Wine casks
Calaveras in the oak
Bourbon rests in new charred oak at elevation, then in an ever-changing variety of local wine casks. Each batch stands on its own.
Sierra water
North Grove, South Grove, the sequoias
Vodka and gin are distilled from California wine and reduced with Sierra Nevada water. North Grove is the grove on the label — sequoias, mint paper. South Grove takes the botanicals. Both say distilled from grapes in italic, like the bottle.
Back label
Look up your batch
Malts, maltster, cooperage, and age are printed on the bottle and collected in the public listing. Example: Discovery Batch 6 lists Admiral Pacific Victor, Kilnsmith, and Great Western Pure California.
Maltbill · Casks · Bottles produced
Open batch listingIf the paper and the listing disagree, trust the bottle in your hand.
On the record
Awards, as they list them
World Vodka Awards — Country Winner, United States, North Grove Vodka
Sunset Magazine International Spirits Competition — Best of Category, Double Gold, 95 Points, South Grove Gin
American Distilling Institute — Best of Category, Double Gold, North Grove Vodka
American Craft Spirits Awards — Innovation Award, Warming Hut
VinePair — The 20 Best Vodkas, North Grove Vodka
Wine Enthusiast — 94 Points, Top 100 Spirits, Calaveras Cask Finish Bourbon
Alpine Club
Twice a year. Three bottles. Yours.
$100 to join, then April and October at 15% off. A membership year — not a punch card.
Tasting room
An hour with a distiller
Thursday through Saturday twelve to six. Sunday twelve to five. Tours most Saturdays, $45, about an hour, then a flight.
Thu–Sat 12–6 · Sun 12–5 · Arnold, CA
