The World Has Many Classes

There’s the upper class, the creative class, the middle class, to name a few, but there is one class that unites anyone who feels the draw from the energy of the outdoors. It’s called the “Outer Class” and Timberline is the vodka created to serve it. It requires no special skill or endorsements aside from a love of the outdoors. It’s for those who love to put a clear, perfectly distilled exclamation point on their days doing whatever they do in the rarefied air of the outdoors.

And for those who think a stump is just as comfortable as a bar stool, Timberline is your membership card, your old lift ticket collection, your campfire one-upmanship tale. It’s a vodka that pairs well with all weather patterns and serves as a reminder that even when sequestered to the inside, the outside is where it’s at. However you do the outdoors, Timberline is vodka for the Outer Class. May you serve each other well.

When farmers and orchardists settled in the Hood River Valley, it’s not hard to imagine they felt like they hit the jackpot. The fertile volcanic soil and the clean glacier-fed rivers were a perfect combination for growing crops including apples. But in 1934, Hood River, like the rest of the country, was in the midst of the Great Depression. Apple prices were low, but the trees didn’t know any better and kept producing them by the bushel. From this surplus of apples and scarcity of revenue, an idea arose to get the apples back to work in the form of Apple Brandy. It created jobs and a new spirit for the times when happiness and conviviality were in short supply. And so the first chapter of Hood River Distillers began.

Not far away in the Mt. Hood National Forest–that’s the Hood River Valley’s back yard–many people who had been affected by the Depression found work the through the WPA (Works Progress Administration) and the Civilian Conservation Corps. They built campsites, trails, lookouts, picnic areas, and the iconic crown jewel of the Cascades: The masterful Timberline Lodge, hand-crafted high on majestic Mt. Hood. All of this work led to greater public access turning wild forest land into beloved places for recreation and reflection. And after the country’s second ever ski lift was installed, Timberline became one of the West’s premier destinations for skiing earning a feature article in Life Magazine.