Visiting Kyrö Distillery
Whisky is in the detail
It has passed already two years since I last visited Kyrö Distillery. They passed Teerenpeli as the biggest whisky distillery in Finland a while ago. Mainly because 2016 still expansion. But that’s not all. At the end of this year the completely new building and distillery should be producing spirit. It will produce more than […]
Finnish Whisky Industry: Casks
Visiting Woodim Finland
Casks are probably the most important part of making whisky. Although it has been said that even the best casks can’t help if your new make spirit is bad. In Scotland spirit has to be matured at least three years in oak casks before it can be called whisky. In the other parts of the […]
Update on Finnish Whisky Markets
03/2018
I wrote an update of Finnish Whisky Markets last time on November and it’s time to refresh the situation. There has been couple new announcements of starting a whisky distilling, Pyynikin Käsityöläispanimo and Iso-Kallan Panimo. Both are breweries that had made beer already some time. Now they try to finance their growth with stock offerings. […]
Mitä tapahtuu Suomen viskimarkkinoilla
Tilannekatsaus 03/18
Koostin viimeksi marraskuussa tilannetta Suomen viskimarkkinoilla ja taas olisi aika päivittää kuulumisia. Olemme saaneet taas pari uutta ilmoitusta viskin tislauksen aloittamisesta Pyynikin Käsityöläispanimolta ja Iso-Kallan Panimolta. Molemmilla on samassa yhteydessä osakeantia. Aika näyttää oliko lupaukset viskistä vain sijoittajien houkuttelua vai toteutuvatko oikeasti. Pyynikin suunnalta en saanut mitään vastauksia viskin valmistuksen aloittamisesta. Tornion Panimo / Sangen […]
Getting your own whisky cask from Finland
Land of thousand lakes has more than thousand whisky casks
There are at least five distilleries that produce whisky continuously in Finland. Many distilleries means many options to get your own cask from Finland. It’s also a traditional way to finance future of young distillery. Nice example of this is Swedish distillery Mackmyra. Best choices in Finland are available from Helsinki Distilling Company and Teerenpeli […]
Blind tasting: Kyrö Distillery Company Suomi 100 rye whisky vs. Helsinki Distilling Company batch 1 rye whiskey
There was lovely scent of rye in the air
We had superb week for finnish whisky lovers in November. Two new 3yo 100% rye whiskies in one week. Both distilleries were established 2014. Kyrö was released first ever finnish rye whisky in august and this was their second batch. Even though these batches were really small, 360 and 580 bottles I managed to get […]
Suomen viskimarkkinat käyvät kuumina
Paljon uusia viskejä ja tislaamoja
Olen saanut muutaman pyynnön kertoa Suomen tislaamojen tilanteesta. Joten tässä lyhyt kooste tietojeni pohjalta missä mennään ja mitä tulevaisuuden suunnitelmia tislaamoilla on. Kokonaisuudessaan tilanne on mahtava suomalaisen whiskyn ystävälle! Teerenpeli Distillery 2002 perustetulla tislaamolla on jo ikänsä puolesta hyvä valikoima markkinoilla ja saatavuus mallillaan. 10- vuotias on vanhin heiltä markkinoilla oleva. Vaikka tislaamon ikä riittäisikin, […]
Finnish whisky industry is going hot
Lots of new distilleries and whiskies
I have got some requests to tell more about situation in Finnish whisky industry. So here is shortly what’s happening and what kind of plans distilleries have for future. To sum it up, future looks very bright for Finnish whisky lovers. Still you must wait a little bit longer to have Finnish whiskies available widely […]