Apocrypha: Tour of the Kyrö Distillery
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While I was in Finland for Finnish Brutality 2021, I took a day to hitch a train ride up to Isokyrö, about 400km northwest of Helsinki. The Kyrö distillery was founded there in 2012, making single malt Finnish rye whiskey and several varieties of gin.
But I wanted to get a look at the production process - and it's impressively well set up! The rye is made in a pair of imported Scottish pot stills, and the gin uses a combination of pot and column distillation. They were kind enough to give me a tour of the whole place, so let's have a look around!
They are distributed throughout the EU, and to a limited extent in the US.
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