Stauning Bastard Malted Rye – Mezcal Finish 46.3%

Stauning Bastard Malted Rye – Mezcal Finish 46.3%

Stauning Bastard en Rye whisky, which is brewed from pure West Jutland ingredients, malted on the floor of our distillery and double-distilled over an open fire. After 3 years in new, charred American oak casks, the whiskey is rounded off with a 6-month stay in old mezcal casks from Mexican Oro de Oaxaca.

The result is an elegant crossroad of a rye whiskey that you won't find anywhere else in the world.

Scent: Sweet tobacco smoke, raisins, oats, citrus
Taste: Tobacco, cinnamon, vanilla, barley, brown sugar, molasses, shortbread.
Aftertaste: Long sweet aftertaste of brown sugar, pepper, gentle smoke and salt

The artwork on the bottle has been drawn by a tattoo artist – Thit Hansgaard

Bastard is the second release from our Research Series. The distillery's playground, where Stauning breaks away from tradition and makes room for experiments and new thinking.

About the Distillery:

Stauning Whiskey was founded in 2005 by nine Danish whiskey enthusiasts and is thus Denmark's oldest whiskey distillery. Stauning Whiskey is made from local products and aged for a minimum of three years in oak casks. Just outside the small village of Stauning, they make West Jutland whiskey their way: malting on the floor, small pot stills and open fire. Because this is how they best express the landscape, nature and mentality of the North Sea in their whisky: You must be able to taste the wind, the grain, the earth, the heather and the heath.