Danish Luxury

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Bøg

A single malt whisky from Thy Whisky, its malt smoked over Danish beech and the spirit aged in sherry casks, mostly oloroso.

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Thy Whisky

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A bottle of Bøg single malt
A bottle of Bøg single malt

Pictures © Thy Whisky, from thy-whisky.dk.

Why it is renowned

Bøg, then sold as Thy Whisky No. 9 Bøg Single Malt, was named European Whisky of the Year in Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2020.1

The story

Bøg, Danish for beech, takes its name from the beech smoke that flavours it, used in the manner of the old Danish smokehouses in place of peat.2 It is made from organic barley grown in the fields around the distillery on the Gyrup farm in Thy.2 The barley is malted and smoked over beech wood in the distillery's drum maltings, distilled once and aged in sherry casks, most of them oloroso.2 The 2026 release uses Odyssey barley from the harvests of 2019 to 2021, 97.5 per cent beech-smoked malt and 2.5 per cent pale malt, and runs to 3,400 bottles of 70 cl at 50 per cent.2

  • Refined, Copenhagen Distillery's single malt of organic Danish barley, part smoked
  • Stauning Rye, West Jutland whisky from local grain malted at the distillery
Sources
  1. 9 Danish whiskies you ought to try, VisitDenmark. visitdenmark.com, read 1 October 2026.
  2. Bøg (2026), Thy Whisky. thy-whisky.dk, read 1 October 2026.

Last checked 1 October 2026, against the maker's own pages.