Friday, October 2, 2009

Mackmyra Whisky - Review Of The Distillery

whisky review - distillery winter

Mackmyra Distillery opened in 1999 and was then the only whisky distillery in Sweden.
It is also the world's most northern distillery.
They store their ordinary whisky mostly in 100 litre (~26.4 US gallons) casks.
This whisky is sold to the public through ordinary channels.
The unique thing about Macmyra is that they also store whisky in
30 litre (~7.9 US gallons) casks and you can order one or more casks directly from the distillery.

It is very common for people to join and share one or more casks.
The bottles from these 30 litre casks are private and not sold in public.
Although a lot of people are swapping bottles with each other to compare the brew.

The casks are stored in four different places in Sweden. One is an old mine close to the distillery, the second one is on an island in Stockholm archipelago in an old military bunker, the third one is in a castle in the south of Sweden and the fourth is on the west coast near Gothenborg also in an old military bunker.

If you take 4 similar casks with the same kind of whisky and store one in each of the four places and then do a whisky review, you'll end up with four different whiskies.

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