The Nordic Countries Flashcards
(16 cards)
Kyro Distillery
-Finish distillery, started in 2010 makes long fermented, double pot still rye
Helsinki Distilling Company
-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
Teerenpeli
-Finnish Distillery
-founder Anssi Pyysing started distilling in Lahti in 2002
-local forest supplies wood pellets for distilleries boiler
-local maltings handles unpeated barley
High Coast Distillery
-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
Agitator
-Swedish distllery on a military base (only one in the world?)
-Arboga - 93 miles west of Stockholm
-Week long fermentations
-Tall stills, high reflux
Mackmyra
-Founded in 1999
-outgrew original site in 2012
-High veritcle distillery (the world’s first)
-Swedish peat, smoking over juniper, ageing 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 relase
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
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
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 barely and rye varieties
How long has independent distillation been allowed in Norway?
Only since 2014
Feddie
-Norwegian island site
-100% femail 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
Myken Distillery
-Norwegian Island site
-Tiny island 1 1/4 miles long by 1/4 mile wide 20 miles of the coast
-in the Artic Circle housed in an old fish factory
-Process water is desalinated
Aurora Spirit
-Norwegain
-sits on a repurposed NATO base
-Built in 2014
-Sourcing artic 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
Einar’s Distillery
-Faroe Islands
-First single malt appeared in 2020 (malt from Simpson’s matured in exB andf exS casks
Faer Isles
-Faroe Islands
-maturation in traditional Faroese food-curing houses
-wooden sides leave gaps allowing the salt-laden wind to blow through
Eimverk Distillery
-Iceland
-First whisky called Floki
-smoked with sheep dung - traditional Icelandic technic for smoking fish
