Have you missed us?

Rarely has there been so much to tell!

We continue to gain ground in New York. Our colleague Ida has been (and still is) in China for a few months to investigate the Chinese and Taiwanese markets. Several Mackmyra bottles are now accessible from the shelves of LCBO in Canada. Still, we have only mentioned a few of the balls we are juggling!

Despite all the exciting news, we have not made a single post on the blog this year. All our time and commitment is currently focused on letting even more Mackmyra Ambassadors around the world gain access to our whisky. Therefore, we have not had the opportunity to provide our loyal readers with updates.

We do not want you to visit the blog, time after time disappointed not to find anything new to read. This is why we have decided to let the blog rest for an indefinite period of time. But do not despair! We will still tell you about everything new that is happening, great and small, on Facebook! We want to thank all our followers for the time been, and we hope that you will continue to follow our trip on Facebook (www.facebook.com/#!/mackmyra). 

Have a nice summer!

Happy Holidays!

Finally the International team is gathered in Stockholm;
Rikard, Sanna, Jonathan and Ida. Jonas, one of the founders, joined this special occasion as well.

After a year of experiences, journeys and a lot of new business contacts can we all assure you that we are very happy with the year.

So, from all of us: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Important days for Swedish whisky

Last Friday, the 16th of December, we did gather at Nasqaq OMX in Stockholm to officially be listed on First North. Our CEO Magnus rang the bell and Mackmyra is now on the stock market!

On Saturday did we open our new distillery : Mackmyra Gravitationsdestilleri (The Gravitation distillery) with a lot of brave visitors, struggling against cold winds and a lot of rain. Despite the weather it was a spectacular day! Our colleague, Lars Lindberger, was the bravest of them all, explaining every single floor of the 35 meter high distillery in a untraditional way, look at this movie (unfortunately only in Swedish).

It was great to see so many of our ambassadors there, wanting to participate on this important day!

A perfect start for the future of Swedish Whisky!

Cheers

Sanna

Leaving New York for this time!

I have now been in New York and launched Mackmyra since April. It has been an amazing journey that just started. I will now go back to Sweden for Christmas but will soon be back to spread our whisky in the states. Thanks everyone for your support, we need your help.

The last event that I had was at the wonderful Swedish owned and run Hotel in East Hamptons called The Maidstone http://www.careofhotels.com/maidstone/. It was a huge success where over 100 people showed up to try the Mackmyra drinks, Swedish Mint Julep and the Swedish Storm.

I wish you Happy Holidays and will soon again keep you updated  with my work in New York and in the rest of the country.

Cheers

Jonathan

Christmas party at the Chamber of Commerce in Beijing

Yesterday was a evening in true Santa Claus spirit! The Chamber of Commerce arranged a Christmas party for 200 guests and Mackmyra was one of the gold sponsors for the event.

Ida and I spent the night mixing whisky drinks and offered The first edition directly from our 30-litre cask. It was a great evening and the guests seems to like us a lot! We made two drinks, the Mackirinha and a Christmas drink, special made for this evening, here is the recipe:

Dizzy Miss Lizzy

4cl of The first edition

2 cl of Mandarine Napoleon

2 cl of Sugar syrap made with cardamom and clove

2 cl of Cranberry juice

Crushed ice

Stir it and if you want to make it a little extra, tear some orange peel over it! Voila!

Big thanks to Johan Jansson who composed the drink!

Cheers!

/Sanna

The first whisky tasting for Mackmyra in Taipei

Tonight we had our very first whisky tasting in Taipei. We talked about the future of Mackmyra while about 30-40 guests had a taste of The First Edition and the Special:07 Hope. It is so exciting to see the genuine interest and curiousity that the Taiwanese people have in Mackmyra!



Mackmyra presentation at the Whisky Gallery in Taipei




Some of our new Taiwanese fans

 A big thank you to Eric, owner of Whisky Gallery, for helping us organise the successful event.


Eric, owner of the Whisky Gallery


This is our last evening in Taipei, hopefully we will come back soon! Tomorrow we fly to Beijing to continue our Asia adventures.


Whisky greetings,

Sanna & Ida

Taipei in 48 hours

We arrived to a cloudy but warm Taipei yesterday afternoon, and it was nice to be back in this friendly city. We are staying at the same hotel as last time where they also have the bar "The Whisky Gallery" where we will have the tasting tonight.
Yesterday we had dinner with our contacts from the Trade Council and it was nice to meet them again, catching up on Taipei.

Dinner at Happy Hong Kong with the Trade Council

Photos and more info will come soon!

Cheers
Sanna