Mackmyra Whisky

Mackmyra Svensk Whisky AB
Aktiebolag
Traded as Nasdaq First North: MACK B
Industry Manufacturing and distillation of liquors
Founded Sweden (1998 (1998))
Products Distilled and blended liquors
Revenue Decrease SEK 64.302 million million[1] (2013)
Total assets Decrease SEK 350.625 million[1] (2013)
Total equity Decrease SEK 148.621 million[1] (2013)
Number of employees
 53 (2013)
Website mackmyra.com

Mackmyra Whisky is a Swedish single malt whisky distillery. It is named after the village and manor of Mackmyra, where the first distillery was established, in the residential district of Valbo, south-west of Gävle.[2][3] The toponym is commonly suggested as deriving from owlet moths (Swedish: nattflyn) and mire (Swedish: myr). However, owlet moths have all but disappeared from present-day Mackmyra, due to the gradual rebound of land—a result of the melting of ice sheets 10,000 years ago.[4]

Mackmyra Svensk Whisky AB is a publicly traded company, listed in December 2011 on Nasdaq OMX's alternative-investment market First North. The company has about 45 employees with annual revenues of around SEK 100 million, and its biggest shareholder is the Swedish farmer's co-op Lantmännen.[5][6][7]

Mackmyra distillery

History

Mackmyra's history started in 1998 at a Swedish winter resort, where eight friends from the Royal Institute of Technology met up for a ski trip. Noticing all of them had brought along a bottle of malt whisky for the host, a conversation started about the manufacturing of a Swedish whisky. The following year a company was founded, and after years of experimenting with 170 different recipes, they finally settled on two recipes in 2002.[8][9] That same year a new distillery was built in the old mill and power station at Mackmyra, which went on stream in October.[10][11][12] The first limited edition single malt whisky, Preludium 01, launched in February 2006 and sold-out in less than 20 minutes.[13]

Production

All ingredients used in the production are sourced within a 75-mile radius from Mackmyra, except for the yeast, which is from Rotebro. The water undergoes a natural filtration process in an esker nearby and is only sterilized with a high-intensity UV light. The peat is from a local bog near Österfärnebo, and the distillery uses barley from Dalarna and Strömsta Manor in Enköping.[14]

A spirit safe at Mackmyra gravity distillery.

Mackmyra bottles all of its wares in their natural color, without additives, and ages their spirits in four different cask types: bourbon, sherry, Swedish oak and in a special signature cask made from classic American bourbon casks and Swedish oak. The whisky is generally matured 50 meters below ground in the disused Bodås Mine in Hofors, and most releases have been at cask strength, except for The First Edition and Mackmyra Brukswhisky.[15][16]

Distilleries

Mackmyra has two active distilleries. The first went on stream at Mackmyra in 2002, featuring a full-sized pot still from Forsyth's in Rothes, Scotland, Swedish stainless steel washbacks and a German mash tun, with a production capacity of 600,000 bottles a year.[15][17]

A second distillery, about 6 miles east of Mackmyra village, was built and went on stream in 2011. The project cost has been estimated at SEK 50 million, featuring two full-sized pot stills with a production capacity of 1,8 M bottles a year. It's seven stories high, using gravity to power many internal processes within the distillery, resulting in about 45% less energy use compared to the first distillery.[15][16][17][18]

Products

Mackmyra The First Edition, 1L bottle and box

Standard Range[19][20]

Special edition bottlings[19][20]

Past special edition bottlings[19][20]

Other spirits[19][20]

Awards

Mackmyra have won several awards at international spirit competitions. For example:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Annual Report 2013" (PDF). Mackmyra Svensk Whisky AB. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Welcome to Mackmyra Bruk". Mackmyra Manor. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "Järnriket - Mackmyra bruk" (in Swedish). Gävleborg County Museum. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  4. ↑ Ingemar, Giös (2010-09-04). "Resa till Mackmyra destilleri" (in Swedish). Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  5. ↑ Katarina, Gustafsson (December 12, 2011). "Swedish Whiskey Maker Looks Abroad In IPO". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  6. ↑ "Mackmyra ska till börsen" (in Swedish). Dagens Industri. 2011-01-31. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  7. ↑ "Information om aktien Mackmyra Svensk Whisky B". Avanza. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  8. ↑ Alexandra, Leyton Espinoza (2011-05-20). "Swedish distiller looks for its niche". China Daily. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  9. ↑ "Mackmyra Whisky - Det svenska originalet sedan 1999" (in Swedish). Mackmyra Svensk Whisky AB. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  10. ↑ "The Story". Mackmyra Svensk Whisky AB. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  11. ↑ Petter, Karlsson (2006). Svensk Whisky: en historia om groggvirke, järn och Mackmyra (in Swedish). Sellin & Partner. ISBN 9789170553394.
  12. ↑ "Svensk maltwhisky på gång" (in Swedish). Dagens Nyheter. 2005-07-30. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  13. ↑ Bengt-Göran, Kronstam (2006-08-06). "Nya framgångar för Mackmyra" (in Swedish). Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  14. ↑ Tetha, Åhs (2010-07-22). "Valboåsens vatten är Mackmyra Whiskys guld" (in Swedish). Arbetarbladet. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  15. 1 2 3 "Mackmyra Swedish Single Malt Whisky". The Whisky Exchange. July 4, 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  16. 1 2 Jörgen, Städje (2013-02-01). "Mackmyra whisky - goda klunkar i rostfria bunkar" (in Swedish). IDG Sweden. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  17. 1 2 Nils, Holmqvist (2011-04-04). "Whisky på höga höjder" (in Swedish). Arbetarbladet. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  18. ↑ Charlotta, von Schultz (2012-12-17). "Här tänker man på procenten" (in Swedish). Ny Teknik. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  19. 1 2 3 4 "Whisky - Mackmyra" (in Swedish). Mackmyra Whisky AB. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  20. 1 2 3 4 "Products Mackmyra". Mackmyra Svensk Whisky AB. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  21. ↑ "Mackmyra lanserar första rökiga whiskyn" (in Swedish). Svenska Dagbladet. 2013-08-16. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  22. ↑ "Mackmyra Reserve". Mackmyra Whisky AB. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  23. ↑ "10-årig Mackmyra whisky äntligen här!" (in Swedish). Mackmyra Svensk Whisky AB. 3 November 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  24. ↑ Jim, Murray (2010). Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2011. The UK: Dram Good Books Ltd. ISBN 9780955472954.
  25. ↑ "Spirit Results 2010" (PDF). IWSC. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  26. ↑ "2012 Producer Trophies". IWSC. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  27. ↑ "Spirit Details: Mackmyra Moment Skog". IWSC. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  28. ↑ "Spirit Details: Mackmyra Special:08 Handplockat". IWSC. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  29. ↑ Nils, Holmqvist (2011-08-07). "Flera guld till Mackmyra" (in Swedish). Arbetarbladet. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  30. ↑ "Spirit Details: Mackmyra Moment Glöd Single Malt Whisky". IWSC. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  31. ↑ "Awarded Products 2013". iTQi. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
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