Whisky has long been a favourite drink in Germany, but it took until 2002 for the first native single malt to be released. At that point there were only three distilleries producing whisky (today there are hundreds), of which one was the Hammerschmiede distillery in the Harz mountains, producer of The Glen Els .
The Hammerschmiede distillery is nestled between the buildings on the left and the trees behind
The company was founded in 1985, when the Buchholz family opened a restaurant in a 13th-century blacksmith’s workshop (today used for whisky maturation), producing a herbal liqueur. In the late 1990s,...
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