Myken Arctic Single Malt – Sabotør #2 2023
RELEASE-DATE: March 1st, 2023
ALCOHOL STRENGTH: 47 % ABV
AGE: 5 years (62,6 months)
BOTTLE SIZE: 500 ml
# OF BOTTLES: 719
PACKAGING: Bottle only
No colour added, no chill filtration
ARTICLE NUMBER, VINMONOPOLET: 15332902
PRICE, VINMONOPOLET: kr. 949,90
Unpeated whisky, matured in ex-bourbon trippelcasks. First, the whisky was aged for just over a year in 2 200 L 1stfill ex-bourbon casks. These barrels were emptied and sent to Bådin, who stored stout in them. The whiskey was filled into new 200 L 1stfill ex-bourbon casks, and finally got half a year in 40 L 2ndfill ex-bourbon casks for extra cask maturation.
Yeast: Safspirit M-1 distiller’s yeast
Malt: Weyermann Pilsner Malt, Extra Hell
Process water: Desalinated sea water (reverse osmosis) from Myken municipal water plant
Cooling water: Sea water pumped directly from the ocean
Batch size: 125 kg malt / 580 L wortBATCHES: 249-255
Average fermentation time: 116 hours (almost 5 days, with cooling the last few days)
Distillation date(s): October 25th – November 7th, 2017
Average distillation time, low wines: 8 hours 51 minutes
Average distillation time, hearts: 4 hours 10 minutes
Cut point, head to heart: 13 minutes
Cut point, heart to tails: 59,7 – 60 % ABVCask 1 (later used for Bådin Stout)
200-litre ex-bourbon cask, 1st fill, cask number: 17/049 (M113)
Date for cask filling: November 1st 2017
Date for cask emptying: March 2nd 2019
Strength at filling: 63,5 % ABV
Volume at filling: 203,1 L
Volume at emptying: about 194 L
Cask 2 (later used for Bådin Stout)
200-litre ex-bourbon cask, 1st fill, cask number: 17/050 (M114)
Date for cask filling: November 8th 2017
Date for cask emptying: March 2nd 2019
Strength at filling: 63,4 % ABV
Volume at filling: 200,9 L
Volume at emptying: about 193 L
Cask 3
200-litre ex-bourbon cask, 1st fill, cask number: 19/016 (M196)
Date for cask filling: March 2nd 2019
Date for cask emptying: May 1st 2022
Volume at filling: about 194 L
Cask 4
200-litre ex-bourbon cask, 1st fill, cask number: 19/017 (M197)
Date for cask filling: March 3rd 2019
Date for cask emptying: May 1st 2022
Volume at filling: about 193 L
Casks 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12
40-litres ex-bourbon cask, 2nd fill, cask number:
22/044, 22/045, 22/046, 22/047, 22/049, 22/050, 22/051 og 22/070
Date for cask filling: May 1st 2022
Date for cask emptying: January 12th 2023
Strength at filling: 63,4 % ABV
Volume at filling: about 40 L pr cask
Volume at emptying: about 37 L pr cask
Angel Share for the whole edition, included all casks: 22,5 %
Storage conditions: racked in an insulated room without temperature control.
“Married” in a steel tank for 14 days. Diluted to 47 % ABV before bottling, with desalinated sea water from the Myken municipal water plant.