Myken Arctic Single Malt – Nordlys
RELEASE-DATE: May 8 th 2024
ALCOHOL STRENGTH: 47 % ABV
AGE: 6 years 6 months
BOTTLE SIZE: 500 ml
# OF BOTTLES: 444
PACKAGING: Bottle only
No colour added, no chill filtration
ARTICLE NUMBER at the Wine Monopoly 17181202
PRICE NOK 1169,9
Nordlys, which means Northern Lights, has first been maturing in 50 liters hungarian oak casks for one year, before spending the next 5,5 years in a 200 L 1 st fill exbourbon cask.
Yeast: Safspirit M-1 distiller’s yeast
Malt: Weyermann Pilsner Malt, Extra Hell
Process water: Desalinated sea water (reverse osmosis) from arctic ocean
Batch size: 125 kg malt / 650 L wort
BATCHES: 118-128
Average fermentation time: 95 hours
Distillation date(s): July 3 rd – 16 th , 2016
Average distillation time, low wines: 10,0 hours
Average distillation time, hearts: 4 hours
Cut point, head to heart: 5 minutes
Cut point, heart to tails: 61 % ABV
CASK 1
50-litre ex-Myken Hungarian cask (2 nd fill, cask number: 16/027
Date for cask filling: July 19 th , 2016
Date for cask emptying: July 1 st , 2017
Strength at filling: 63,4 % ABV
Volume at filling: 52,7 L
Volume at emptying: 50,3 L
Angels’ Share: 4,5 %
CASK 2
50-litre ex-Myken Hungarian cask (2 nd fill, cask number: 16/028
Date for cask filling: July 19 th , 2016
Date for cask emptying: July 1 st , 2017
Strength at filling: 63,4 % ABV
Volume at filling: 51,4 L
Volume at emptying: 49 L
Angels’ Share: 4,6 %
CASK 3
50-litre ex-Myken Hungarian cask (2 nd fill, cask number: 16/029
Date for cask filling: July 19 th , 2016
Date for cask emptying: July 1 st , 2017
Strength at filling: 63,4 % ABV
Volume at filling: 51,5 L
Volume at emptying: 49,1 L
Angels’ Share: 4,6 %
CASK 4
50-litre ex-Myken Hungarian cask (2 nd fill, cask number: 16/030
Date for cask filling: July 19 th , 2016
Date for cask emptying: July 1 st , 2017
Strength at filling: 63,4 % ABV
Volume at filling: 52,4 L
Volume at emptying: 50 L
Angels’ Share: 4,5 %
CASK 5
200-litre ex-bourbon cask (1 st fill, cask number: 17/013
Date for cask filling: July 1 th , 2017
Date for cask emptying: February 3 rd , 2017
Strength at filling: 63,4 % ABV
Volume at filling: 198,4 L
Volume at emptying: 170 L
Angels’ Share: 14,3 %
Storage conditions: racked in an insulated room without temperature control.
“Married” in a steel tank for 1 week, and diluted to 47 % ABV before bottling, with desalinated sea water from the Myken municipal water plant.