Drinks Spirits Stauning Whisky
Peated 1st Edition
The first whisky Stauning distilled: a peated single malt bottled once, in 715 bottles at 62.8% ABV.
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Pictures © Stauning Whisky, from stauningwhisky.dk (archived pages).
Why it is renowned
Jim Murray's Whisky Bible gave Peated 1st Edition 94 points and a Liquid Gold Award in its 2013 edition, and 94.5 points in its 2014 edition.1
The story
Peated 1st Edition was the first whisky Stauning distilled, though its fourth bottling.2 It was a single malt of malted barley, dried with smoke from peat dug by the Klosterlund Museum, and stored in first-fill ex-bourbon casks from Maker's Mark.2 It came in 50 cl bottles at 62.8% ABV, and all 715 bottles sold out.2
Sources
- Stauning Whisky, Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org, read 7 October 2026.
- Earlier bottlings, Stauning Whisky (archived 2015-01-19). web.archive.org, read 7 October 2026.
Last checked 7 October 2026, against official sources.