With Askeim 8 y.o., Smögen is venturing into a new brand that aims to revive the long-forgotten flavours of classic barley varieties. The focus is on the philosophy of prioritising flavour and character over yield and production costs. To achieve this, the distillery uses lower-yielding but more flavourful grain varieties, which are characterised by their individuality and give the Askeim brand an unmistakable identity.

The first Askeim bottling is based on the lightly peated Golden Promise barley variety, a variety that characterised whisky production in the 1970s in particular. Today, Golden Promise is mainly used in the production of full-bodied British ales and has largely been replaced by higher-yielding varieties in the whisky industry. With this bottling, Smögen is specifically drawing on this traditional barley and preserving a piece of whisky history that should appeal to connoisseurs and lovers of classic flavours.

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