European Flashcards
(41 cards)
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Distilleries of Brittany
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- Warenghem
- Mine d’Or
- Celtic Whisky Distilleries
- Distillerie des Menhirs
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Warenghem Distillery
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- Founded in Lannoin in 1983 by Gilles Leizour
- Needed to diversify his core business of mead, liqueurs and apple brandy
- Using existing stills - blended whisky was released in 1987
- In 1994 they added Scottish-style Pots made in Charante and made Armorik Single Malt in 1998
- Focused on clear wort, different yeasts and tighter cuts resulting in extra fruits
- Aging is mainly in ex Bourbon with some oloroso and STR
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La Mine d’Or Distillery
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- Founded in 2016 by Stehane Kerdode
- Near the Broceliande Forest, famed in Arthurian legend (distiller’s whiskey Galaad is Breton for Galahad)
- Unpeated French barley
- Wort split between stainless (5-6 days) and French Oak (4 days)
- Two different still designs
- First still is direct-fired lamp glass with long downward lyne arm and worms - gives oily fruity new make
- Second still is a Stupfer hybrid pot and linked column that runs in a single pass to a worm
- French oak casks and ex-Cognac, Acacia, Chestnut and Cherry
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Celtic Whisky Distillerie
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- Founded by Jean Donnay in 1997 it was originally called Glann ar Mor distillery
- Renamed Celtic Whisky Distillere - Glann ar Mor is now one of its brands
- Maris Otter barley
- Direct fired stills
- Run slow with condensing in worms
- Seashore location gives an undoubted salinity to unpeated Glann are Mor and peated Kornog Roc’h Hir
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Distillerie des Menhirs
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- Founded by Guy Le Lay in 1986
- Family began distilling lambig (apple brandy) in 1920s
- Makes Breton whiskey with buckwheat
- Yields are very low
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Distilleries of Alsace
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- Distilllerie Bertranc
- Miclo
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Distillerie Bertrand
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- Bertrand family draws from centuries of making fruit spirits
- Whisky became part of the portfolio in 2000
- Uberach Single Malt in 2003
- Both Uberach and organic St Wendelin Single Malt distilled in a Holstein still
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Alsace IGP for Whisky
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- Can only be made from non-GMO malted barley, yeast, and aged in oak casks less than 700L for a minimum of three years in an unheated cellar
- Other woods can be used after three years
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Miclo Distillery
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- Family owned and located in Lapoutroie (Alsace Welch country)
- Another producer diversifying from eau-de-vie
- Began to distill in 2011 in collaboration with local Meteor brewery
- Unpeated, smoked, and peated malts distilled in Holstein column stills
- Aged primarily in ex-wine casks
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Distilleries of Central/East France
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- Ninkasi
- Twelve
- Rozelieures
- Domaine des Haute Glaces
- Domaine du Vercors
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Whisky distilleries in Cognac
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- Alfred Giraud
- Tessendier & Fils
- Maison Boinaud
- Les Bruleries Modernes
- Brenne
- Masison Lineti
- Robored de Climens
12
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How many distilleries are there in Germany where whisky is either exclusive or a significant element?
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150
13
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Important distilleries in Germany
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- Slyrs
- St Killian
- Berkenhof
- Heinrich Habbel
- Stork
- Hillock
14
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Belgian Owl (Belgium)
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- Scottish Style Distillery
- In Fexhe-le-Haut-Clocher
- Founded by Etienne Bouillon
- Working closely with local farmers
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Filliers (Belgium)
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- Genever distillery that also makes whiskey
- Benoir Filliers is sixth generation in his family to distill
- Installed 2 pot stills from Forsythe in 2008
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Millstone Distillery (Netherlands)
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- Started in 1975 by Fred van Zuidam - left position as head distiller at deKuyper
- Millstone reclaimed Rye as a European Spirit
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Austria’s whisky distilleries
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- Haider (Rye)
- Farthofer (Malt)
- Weidenauer (Malt)
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What was Italy’s first distillery?
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Puni in 2010
- Makes three expressions Sole, Gold, and Vina
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Kyro Distillery
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- Finnish distillery, started in 2010 makes long fermented, double pot still rye
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Helsinki Distilling Company
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- Finnish distillery
- Founded by Kai Kilpinen
- Signature is double distilled Rye
- Also making Single Malt and Corn whiskey
- Grain and the oak for casks all come from within 50km of distillery
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Teerenpeli
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- Finnish Distillery
- Founder Anssi Pyysing started distilling in Lahti in 2002
- Local forest supplies wood pellets for distillery’s boiler
- Local maltings handles unpeated barley
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High Coast Distillery
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- Swedish
- Founded in 2007 - production started three years later
- Single Malt facility (unpeated, peated and organic)
- Winter temps as low as -30C, summers as hot as 40C
- Huge swings for barrel maturation
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Agitator
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- Swedish distillery on a military base (only one in the world?)
- Arboga - 93 miles west of Stockholm
- Week long fermentations
- Tall stills, high reflux
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Mackmyra
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- Founded in 1999
- Outgrew original site in 2012
- High vertical distillery (the world’s first)
- Swedish peat, smoking over juniper, aging in Swedish Oak and aging in an old mine
- Core is Svensk Ek (aged in Virgin Swedish Oak), Svensk Rok (Swedish peat with juniper) and the original Brukswhisky - now a vintage release
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Copenhagen Distillery
- Danish
- Founded in 2014
- Organic Danish grain
- Maturation in predominantly Hungarian Oak (Quercus Frainetto) toasted to different levels to create a range of flavor profiles
- Three categories (Raw is organic grain / hungarian oak)
(Refined in Smoked)
(Rare can be unusual grains or crazy variation)
- Blood and Bone - distillate produced from the blood and bones of two deer
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Stauning
- Danish
- Started in a butchery in August 2006
- Local grown barley
- Also Rye for spirit
- Kilning using local peat in meat smoker
- New distillery three years later in a former dairy
- Direct fired stills
- Peat with heather added and sometimes seaweed and pine
- Significant investment from Diageo's Distel Ventures in 2014
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Thy Distillery
- Danish
- Currently run by sisters - Marie and Ellen with their husbands Andreas Pousen and Jacob Stjernholm
- Organic field to bottle operation
- Old Danish barley and rye varieties
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How long has independent distillation been allowed in Norway?
Only since 2014
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Feddie
- Norwegian island site
- 100% female owned
- First whisky in 2024
- All barley is organic, after 72 hour ferments the new make comes from a single pass in a hybrid still
- Experimenting with 1,000 year old Norwegian yeast strain called Kveik
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Myken Distillery
- Norwegian Island site
- Tiny island 1 1/4 miles long by 1/4 mile wide 20 miles off the coast
- In the Arctic Circle housed in an old fish factory
- Process water is desalinated
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Aurora Spirit
- Norwegian
- Sits on a repurposed NATO base
- Built in 2014
- Sourcing Arctic barley (6 row Heder Braga, Bere, and Heder x maltling barley cross
- Distillation in hybrid pot and linked column
- Bivrost "The Nine Worlds of Norse Mythology" series
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Einar's Distillery
- Faroe Islands
- First single malt appeared in 2020 (malt from Simpson's matured in exB and exS casks)
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Faer Isles
- Faroe Islands
- Maturation in traditional Faroese food-curing houses
- Wooden sides leave gaps allowing the salt-laden wind to blow through
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Eimverk Distillery
- Iceland
- First whisky called Floki
- Smoked with sheep dung - traditional Icelandic technique for smoking fish
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DYC
- Spanish
- Acronym for Destilerias Y Crianza
- Launched in 1963
- Now owned by Suntory
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Liber Distillery
- Launched the modern Spanish whisky industry
- Founded by Fran Peregrina in 1002
- Local barley and water from the Sierra Nevada
- Aged in PX casks
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Destilerias Acha
- Spanish
- Basque Country
- Founded in 1831 specializing in spirits and liqueurs
- Whisky production began in 2006
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Czech Republic and Slovakia
- Gold Cock (Czech) distillery started in Vozovice in 1877 with whisky a more recent arrival
- Svach Distillery - brewery now making whisky
- Nestivlle in Slovakia - started as industrial alcohol producer - now making whisky with corn, triticale, and malt
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Hungary
- Gemenc distillery only whisky distillery amongst country's fruit spirit producers
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Romania
- Carpathian Distillery began producing in 2017
- Malt sourced from local Souffflet maltings
- 72 hour fermentation before double pot stills
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Poland
- Piasecki distillery - oak aged honey spirit
- Ciechan brewery
- Karczma Wrzos
- Mundvie - 100% Rye distilled in Silesian Foothills
- Millside - began as an importer
