A sauna idea and an old dairy
The founders registered the company as Rye Rye Osakeyhtiö on 29 August 2012, though none had worked in the drinks trade.1,2,3 Their home was a cheese factory built in 1908 that used to make Oltermanni cheese.
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Kyrö is a rye whisky distillery in Isokyrö, Finland, founded by five friends in 2012 after an evening in a sauna.1,2,3 It began distilling in 2014 in an old cheese factory beside the River Kyrö.3,4,5 It distils only malted rye, in copper pot stills powered by local food waste biogas.2,5,6
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