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MACKMYRA DISTLLERY PROFILE |
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Mackmyra Sveden Distillery Perhaps It Sounds Too Simple, But It All Started With A Skiing Trip. Eight of Us, Friends Since Our Student Days In The Early 1990s At The Royal Institute of Technology In |
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Stockholm, Met Up At A Mountain Lodge In The Spring of 1998. As We Had Each Taken Along A Bottle of Malt Whisky For The Host, The Topic of Conversation Was Obvious. How Do You Actually Make Whisky? |
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And Why Isn’t There a Swedish One? One Year After The Idea Was Born, In 1999, Mackmyra Svensk Whisky Was Founded. Later That Year All The Permits Were In Place And The First Drops Could Be Distilled. |
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In 2001 We Had Produced Two Recipes, An Elegant, Fruity One And One With Characteristic Swedish Smokiness. These Are The Two Flavours That Will Be Associated With The Words Swedish Malt Whisky. What |
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Had Started As A Mental Exercise Developed Into A Dream, Which In Time Became A Reality. Now The Very First, Totally Swedish Malt Whisky Is Here. When The First Totally Swedish Malt Whisky Is Here. |
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WhenThe First Bottles Went On Sale InThe Stores of Systembolaget [The State-owned Alcohol Monopoly] In March 2006, People Were Standing In Line And The Bottles Were Sold Out All Over Sweden In OneHour |
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The Swedes Have Done A Fantastic Job of Creating A Distinctively Swedish product With All The Ingredients Being Sourced From Within Sweden. Water, Barley Yeast And Peat. Water From The Valbo Ridge. |
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