Mackmyra Whisky

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Mackmyra Svensk Whisky AB
Company type Aktiebolag
Nasdaq First North:  MACK B
IndustryManufacturing and distillation of liquors
Founded Sweden (1998 (1998))
DefunctAugust 19, 2024 (2024-08-19)
ProductsDistilled and blended liquors
RevenueDecrease2.svg SEK 64.302 million million [1]  (2013)
Total assets Decrease2.svg SEK 350.625 million [1]  (2013)
Total equity Decrease2.svg SEK 148.621 million [1]  (2013)
Number of employees
53 (2013)
Website mackmyra.com
Mackmyra distillery
Mackmyra Whisky Distillery at winter -- Mackmyra Bruk, Valbo, Sweden.jpg
Mackmyra distillery.jpg

Mackmyra Whisky was a Swedish single malt whisky distillery. On August 19th, 2024, Mackmyra Svensk Whisky AB filed for bankruptcy. [2] After the bancrupcy, more than 50 organizations expressed interest to buy Mackmyra, such interest level is unprecedented in Swedish history. [3]

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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. [4] [5] The toponym is commonly suggested as deriving from a regional word for gnats (Swedish: mack) 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. [6]

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. [7] [8] [9]

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. [10] [11] That same year a new distillery was built in the old mill and power station at Mackmyra, which went on stream in October. [12] [13] [14] The first limited edition single malt whisky, Preludium 01, launched in February 2006 and sold-out in less than 20 minutes. [15]

Production

Mackmyra warehouses
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At Bodås iron mine
Mackmyra copper stills
A still at Mackmyra Whisky Distillery.jpg
Mackmyra copper stills.jpg

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. [16]

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. [17] [18] Mackmyra filed for insolvency in 2024. [19]

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. [17] [20]

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 storeys high, using gravity to power many internal processes within the distillery, resulting in about 45% less energy use compared to the first distillery. [17] [18] [20] [21]

Products

Mackmyra products
Mackmyra Whisky - 1st Edition Bottle.jpg
Mackmyra Whisky - The 1st Edition.jpg

Standard Range [22] [23]

Special edition bottlings [22] [23]

Past special edition bottlings [22] [23]

Other spirits [22] [23]

A spirit safe at Mackmyra gravity distillery. Spirit Safe at Mackmyra Whisky Gravity Distillery.jpg
A spirit safe at Mackmyra gravity distillery.

Awards

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

See also

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Coordinates: 60°38′23″N16°57′55″E / 60.63971°N 16.96541°E / 60.63971; 16.96541 (Mackmyra Distillery)