By Richard Thomas Diageo’s venture capital arm, Distill Ventures, is to put £10 m into Stauning, a distillery that is part of Denmark’s growing whisky-making sector. The capital injection is for an expansion that will allow Stauning to increase its current 15,000-liter production capacity by a factor of 50. Stauning was started a decade ago as a garage business and ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Batch 1 of Efterar, or “autumn,” was the original whisky release from Danish distillery Fary Lochan. Reportedly this was aged in quarter-casks (small barrels) for approximately three years, and then received a sherry cask finish for about five months. It was bottled at 48% abv in 50 cl bottles, and is now completely sold out. ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: C- Danish distillery Fary Lochan releases its whiskies in small, three-digit batches named for the seasons, hence “Forar” or Spring Batch 1. “Vinter” is a more obvious translation into English, and the Winter Batch 1 was a 663-bottle run of 54% abv Danish whisky. The Whisky I think perhaps the reason they named this winter has ...

By Richard Thomas Rating:B Sometimes the subject of European whisky comes up in bar chat, and by that I mean Continental European. Many a Britisher is surprised by the idea that anyone across the Channel or the North Sea is making whisky, so much so that they don’t even assume it’s malt whisky made on the Scottish model. But that ...