Description of Business	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Accounting Policies [Abstract]
Description of Business	1. Description of Business Eastside Distilling (the “Company” or “Eastside Distilling) was incorporated under the laws of Nevada in 2004 under the name of Eurocan Holdings, Ltd. In December 2014, the Company changed its corporate name to Eastside Distilling, Inc. to reflect the acquisition of Eastside Distilling, LLC. The Company manufactures, acquires, blends, bottles, imports, exports, markets and sells a wide variety of alcoholic beverages under recognized brands. The Company currently employ 78 people in the United States. The Company’s brands span several alcoholic beverage categories, including whiskey, vodka, gin, rum, tequila and Ready-to-Drink (RTD). The Company sells products on a wholesale basis to distributors in open states, and brokers in control states, and until March 2020, operated four retail tasting rooms in Portland, Oregon to market our brands directly to consumers. The Company operates a mobile craft canning and bottling business (“Craft Canning”) that primarily services the craft beer and craft cider business. Craft Canning operates 11 mobile lines in Seattle, Portland and Denver.

The entire disclosure for the business description and basis of presentation concepts. Business description describes the nature and type of organization including but not limited to organizational structure as may be applicable to holding companies, parent and subsidiary relationships, business divisions, business units, business segments, affiliates and information about significant ownership of the reporting entity. Basis of presentation describes the underlying basis used to prepare the financial statements (for example, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Other Comprehensive Basis of Accounting, IFRS).

Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 235
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2122369

Reference 2: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 205
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2122149

Reference 3: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 275
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134479

Name:	us-gaap_BusinessDescriptionAndBasisOfPresentationTextBlock
Namespace Prefix:	us-gaap_
Data Type:	nonnum:textBlockItemType
Balance Type:	na
Period Type:	duration