Seattle’s Westland Distillery, one of the premier producers of American single malt, just celebrated a milestone with the release of the new 10-year-old version of its highly collectible Garryana whiskey. But in a turn of events that no one at the distillery could have foreseen, this almost didn’t happen—on July 31, a truckload of Westland whiskey worth almost $1 million, including nearly half of the Garryana bottles, was stolen.
Despite this (or possibly because of this),…

