Mackmyra Whisky was a Swedish Single malt whiskydistillery. On 19 August 2024, Mackmyra Svensk Whisky AB filed for bankruptcy.[2] After the bankruptcy, more than 50 organizations expressed interest to buy Mackmyra, such interest level is unprecedented in Swedish history.[3]
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-opLantmännen.[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]
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 50million, 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.[17][18][20][21]
In 2012, Mackmyra received a trophy as the "European Spirits Producer of the Year" by the IWSC, and was awarded gold for Moment Skog and Mackmyra Special 08.[29][30][31] Gold have also previously been awarded in 2011 for The First Edition, Moment Drivved, Moment Medvind and Mackmyra Reserve.[32]
↑ Almgren, Jan (29 August 2024). "Efter konkursen – "över 50" vill köpa Mackmyra". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 9 September 2024. Retrieved 9 September 2024. Intresset för konkursade Mackmyra är rekordstort. Över 50 intressenter har bett att få ut ett anbudsunderlag. Konkursförvaltaren har aldrig varit med om något liknande.
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SEK 64.302 million million [1] (2013)
