It is located in the western part of Jutland just south of a small village called Stauning near Skjern.
[1] The first distillation took place in August 2006 and the following months the test production continued with ongoing improvements and streamlining of the process.
In the fall of 2006 the nine owners met the whisky expert Jim Murray and presented the new spirit to him for a tasting.
Murray was very positive and compared the results to the Ardbeg of the 1970s while recommending the owners to increase production.
The chance meeting with Murray became the decision maker for the founders and in 2007 they purchased a small farm and moved the distillery from the private slaughter-house in the village of Stauning, to its current placement approximately 1.5 kilometers south of the village.
[2] The distillery has also won critical acclaim in Murray's "Whisky Bible", where their Peated 1st Edition received 94 points out of 100.
When new whisky is distilled, it is a colorless liquid and has only taste and aroma of alcohol and grain.
It is from aging in charred oak barrels the whisky gets its color, complexity and flavor.