| Location |
|
|---|---|
| Owner | Slyrs Destillerie GmbH & Co. KG |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Status | Active |
| Slyrs | |
| Type | Single Malt Bavarian whisky |
Slyrs (German pronunciation: [ˈʃliːɐ̯s]) is a German whisky distillery in Schliersee, a small town in the Oberbayern region of Bavaria. The distillery is controlled by the Stetter family, which also operates a schnapps distillery previously used to distill Slyrs whisky.
According to Andrea Stetter, one of Slyrs' managing directors, Slyrs whisky is fundamentally different from Scotch, with "... a mild, fruity taste ...", and "... can be drunk as soon as it is three years old."
Name
The name Slyrs is derived from Slyrse, the old Bavarian name for the Schliersee and the monastery of the same name.
History
The distillery in the district of Neuhaus was founded in 1999 by Florian Stetter, who trained as a brewer and maltster.
Since whiskey has to be stored by law for three years and the production quantities are comparatively small anyway, only a limited edition of 100,000 bottles was initially sold and then distributed locally. In 2011, between 40,000 and 50,000 people visited the distillery. As of 2011, the whisky distillery was the largest in Germany.
In December 2014, a newly built warehouse was inaugurated on the Stümpfling mountain at an altitude of 1501 meters, which can hold up to 40 barrels of 225 liters each. Under the special climatic conditions, the whiskey stored here should develop a different taste than that stored in the valley.
Awards
Slyrs' Sherry Edition No 1 was awarded the Gold Award for the Best European Single Malt in Whisky Magazine's World Whiskies Awards 2014.
References
- "High Spirits: Bavaria's Going Frisky for Whisky!". MUNICHfound.com website. Munich Found Verlag. March 2005. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - Klimek, Oliver (15 April 2010). "Distillery Visit: Slyrs Bavarian Single Malt". dramming.com website. Oliver Klimek. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - Petzinger, Jill (25 February 2011). "Taking on the Scots: German Distillers Swap Schnapps for Single Malts". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
- "Rathaus Schliersee. Besiedlungsgeschichte der Region Schliersee".
- magazin, Rüdiger Albert, manager. "Whiskys aus Deutschland: Deutsche Brenner im Whiskyrausch". www.manager-magazin.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-05-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - "Der Whisky vom Berg: Slyrs Mountain Edition". FOODHUNTER. 2015-01-12. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- "Zwei Dutzend Fassl auf Bergtour". www.merkur.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- "Slyrs PX Finishing". World Whiskies Awards website. Whisky Magazine. Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
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Bibliography
- Buxton, Ian (2012). 101 World Whiskies to Try Before You Die. Edinburgh: Hachette Scotland. pp. 44–45. ISBN 9780755363193.
- Roskrow, Dominic (February 2013). "Slyrs - Whisky's best kept secret". World Whisky Review website. Connosr Ltd. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - Toprak, Mehmet (April 2010). "Whisky with a Bavarian twist". The Atlantic Times. Times Media GmbH. Archived from the original on 27 May 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
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External links
Media related to Slyrs at Wikimedia Commons
- Slyrs – official site
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