About Nordic Distillery
On the property by the ice age gorge Hødal, sheltered from the wild winds, founder Anders Bilgram runs the microdistillery Nordisk Brænderi. Surrounded by deep valleys and rippling streams, the untamed West Sea, rolling cornfields and green forests, you will find both wildness and tranquility at the same time, and in this unique place, the love of Nordic nature and adventure has created handmade premium spirits.
Establishment
Nordic Distillery
Nordisk Brænderi is established in connection with the home and the Hødal glassblowing factory at Hjortdal
First recognition
The best Christmas schnapps
Nordisk Brænderis Christmas schnapps 2011 is voted best Christmas schnapps
at an unofficial competition at restaurant Scheelsminde in Aalborg. Total participants
five Danish micro-distilleries.
First whisky
Special Edition No. 1
Launch of first whiskey at distiller Anders Bilgram
51st birthday, Nordic Brandy Special Edition No. 1. The whiskey sold
through certificates, and on the day certificate holders could pick up their bottle in
the distillery.
Double gold medal
First real Danish gin
Launch of the first entirely Danish-produced gin in the new gin wave, Nordisk Gin, edition Northstar, distilled and produced at Nordisk Brænderi. Event at the gin bar "The Bird and the Churchkeys" one-year birthday in Copenhagen. The event was carried out in collaboration with the bar and gin influences and writer Michael Sperling. In the spring of 2015, the gin received a double gold medal at The Fifty best Gins in the USA.
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Best in Class in rum
Skotlander White Rum is named Best in Class at the Miami Rum Festival, where brand owner Anders Skotlander and distiller Anders Bilgram participate on the initiative of Skotlander.
The best of the year
International honors
Nordisk Brænderi was named "Denmark Distillery of the Year" in Berlin.
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Super Premium
Herbie Gin Export is named Gin Master 2018 in the category "Super Premium" at the competition "The Gin Master 2018" in London.
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Adventure in a bottle
Wanderum receives Platinum Medal for Edition Llareno at the Sip Awards in the USA in the dark rum category. Wanderum is produced by Nordisk Brænderi in close collaboration with adventurer and TV celebrity Morten Kirckhoff, who is responsible for branding and sales. Wanderum is real adventure in a bottle, and the distillates are produced in exotic locations. The distillate is stored and blended at Nordisk Brænderi.
Corona
A helpful hand sanitizer
The employees have been sent home during the corona pandemic, and Anders Bilgram distills alcohol into hand alcohol by emptying 143 cans and re-distilling beer from the Ceres breweries and Thisted Bryghus. The distillate is donated to a producer of hand alcohol in connection with the Denmark helps Denmark campaign.
Club for connoisseurs of life
Nordic Clan launched
We are starting a subscription club where spirits enthusiasts receive a special Limited Edition bottle for members only every quarter. The first bottle is a mead-based gin.
Single Estate Whisky
Opening of Hødal Malteri
Large public reception by Hødal Malteri, filling of Nordisk Brænderi's first single estate whiskey and launch of Denmark's first Rolling Distillery. Up to 400 attended the opening, which was officially handled by Jammerbugt Municipality's mayor, Mogens Gade.
Originally, the good craftsmanship started with the production of exclusive and unique brandies and schnapps based on Nordic fruits, berries, herbs etc.
The spirits and schnapps are still a regular part of everyday life at the distillery, but Nordisk Brænderi increasingly produces gin, rum and whiskey for both the domestic and export markets.
What the products have in common is that only the best raw materials are used, which are selected, sorted and processed manually throughout the production process to ensure the best taste experience for the customer. The products are strongly inspired by adventure and Nordic nature. In addition, they are diluted with the good, local water from the distillery's own water bore.
Anders is an engineer, a member of the Adventurers' Club and has a background as an adventurer and expedition leader in the Arctic on the Polar Passagen 2000.
And it was precisely in the biting arctic cold that the idea for Nordisk Brænderi arose.
Countless visits to warm-hearted people along the shores of the Arctic Ocean, where "junglebrew" or vodka was produced at several illegal home distilleries, have given the thoughts a push towards the realization of the freezing man's dream.
With chattering teeth, Anders has comforted himself at the thought of the finest premium spirit drunk from his wife's mouth-blown glass from her glassblowing workshop.
The distillation process takes place on handmade Müller copper stills from the Black Forest in Germany. Bernd Müller, who is the master behind these excellent Aroma stills, is the third generation in the company.
The stills are equipped with an Aroma purifier, which is designed to extract the flavor from the mash – i.e. that which is distilled on. This provides a unique and intense taste experience in the products.
Enjoy the variations and the authentic experience of sitting down with a glass of unique spirits.
Originally, the good craftsmanship started with the production of exclusive and unique brandies and schnapps based on Nordic fruits, berries, herbs etc.
The spirits and schnapps are still a regular part of everyday life at the distillery, but Nordisk Brænderi increasingly produces gin, rum and whiskey for both the domestic and export markets.
What the products have in common is that only the best raw materials are used, which are selected, sorted and processed manually throughout the production process to ensure the best taste experience for the customer. The products are strongly inspired by adventure and Nordic nature. In addition, they are diluted with the good, local water from the distillery's own water bore.
Anders is an engineer, a member of the Adventurers' Club and has a background as an adventurer and expedition leader in the Arctic on the Polar Passagen 2000.
And it was precisely in the biting arctic cold that the idea for Nordisk Brænderi arose.
Countless visits to warm-hearted people along the shores of the Arctic Ocean, where "junglebrew" or vodka was produced at several illegal home distilleries, have given the thoughts a push towards the realization of the freezing man's dream.
With chattering teeth, Anders has comforted himself at the thought of the finest premium spirit drunk from his wife's mouth-blown glass from her glassblowing workshop.
The distillation process takes place on handmade Müller copper stills from the Black Forest in Germany. Bernd Müller, who is the master behind these excellent Aroma stills, is the third generation in the company.
The stills are equipped with an Aroma purifier, which is designed to extract the flavor from the mash – i.e. that which is distilled on. This provides a unique and intense taste experience in the products.
Enjoy the variations and the authentic experience of sitting down with a glass of unique spirits.