Q Distillery · Narsaq, Greenland · Founded 2015

The Founders
Cask Series

Fifty casks. The world's first Greenlandic whisky.
Your name on a piece of history — maturing in the heart of Greenland.

Reserve Your Cask The Journey
The Story

Oak from Kentucky.
Spirit from the ice.

Every Founders Cask begins its journey in the American Midwest — bourbon barrels, spent of their whiskey, their oak deeply toasted and seasoned by years of Kentucky spirit.

They travel east across the Atlantic, north through the Danish straits, and further still — past Iceland — to Narsaq, a town of 1,200 souls on the southwestern tip of Greenland.

There, Kattie Pauline Nielsen — Greenland's first Master Distiller — fills each cask by hand with new make spirit, distilled from pure glacial meltwater and malted barley. The casks are then sealed and laid to rest in a warehouse at the edge of the world.

What matures inside is shaped by Greenland's extreme seasons — the perpetual daylight of summer, the total darkness of polar winter, the clean Arctic air that breathes through every stave. No whisky anywhere on earth ages quite like this.

ARCTIC CIRCLE NARSAQ KENTUCKY ICELAND EUROPE 🛢 🛢 ~5,500 km · NARSAQ, SOUTH GREENLAND
What You Own

A cask. A certificate.
A story.

01
Your Cask
A numbered 200-litre ex-bourbon oak barrel, filled by Kattie Pauline Nielsen with new make spirit distilled in Narsaq. Your cask number is yours permanently — it travels with the spirit from still to bottle.
02
Provenance Certificate
A signed certificate of ownership, recording your cask number, fill date, distillation batch, and the name of the Master Distiller. The founding document of Greenland's whisky heritage.
03
Bottling Rights
When your whisky is ready for bottling — typically 3 to 10 years — you choose. Single cask bottles for yourself, your family, or commercial release. We handle the logistics; you own the spirit.
Founders Series

Cask Availability

Available 50 of 50 remaining
Available
Reserved
Allocated
Investment

Simple, transparent
pricing.

Founders Cask Series · Limited to 50
Full Cask Ownership
200 litre · Ex-bourbon oak · Cask strength
65.000 DKK
Secure with DKK 1.000 today
Balance on contract signing
What's Included
  • Numbered 200L ex-bourbon cask, filled by hand in Narsaq
  • Signed provenance certificate with your cask number
  • Annual tasting sample & cask report from Kattie
  • Bottling rights — single cask or blended release
  • Invitation to the first Founders Cask bottling event in Narsaq
  • Founders plaque in the Q Distillery
How It Works
1
Reserve Today — DKK 1.000
A non-refundable reservation fee secures your cask number. You receive immediate confirmation and your provisional cask certificate.
2
Contract & Final Payment
Within 14 days we send your signed ownership contract. The remaining DKK 64.000 is due on signing. Your cask is then formally allocated.
3
Your Cask Matures in Greenland
Kattie fills your barrel. It's sealed, numbered, and laid down in our Narsaq warehouse. You'll receive a photo and annual updates as it matures in Narsaq, Greenland.

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Secure Your Place

Reserve a
Founders Cask

Your reservation is secured by a non-refundable DKK 1.000 deposit, paid securely via Revolut. We will contact you within 48 hours with your provisional cask number and ownership contract.

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Once payment is complete, we will be in touch within 48 hours with your provisional cask number and ownership contract.

Takuss — thank you in Greenlandic.

Questions

Frequently
asked.

Your cask is stored in our bonded warehouse in Narsaq, South Greenland. It is insured, numbered, and catalogued in our ownership register. You receive an annual report from Kattie including a small tasting sample drawn directly from your barrel, so you can follow your whisky as it develops year by year.
You may request bottling at any time after 3 years, though most cask owners choose to mature for 5–10 years for full development. We handle all bottling, labelling and logistics. You can bottle for personal use or, if you wish, release commercially through our distribution network including LMDW France.
Yes. Your cask ownership certificate is transferable. We ask only that any transfer is notified to us so we can update our register. We are also able to assist in finding buyers for casks through our network, should you wish to exit your investment.
No whisky has ever been distilled in Greenland before. The spirit is made with glacial meltwater — among the purest water on earth — and aged in conditions found nowhere else: extreme seasonal temperature variation, clean Arctic air, and the unique interplay of polar light. The Founders Casks are also the only whisky that can ever carry the designation of the world's first Greenlandic release.
The reservation fee is a non-refundable deposit of DKK 1.000 that secures your cask number and removes it from availability. It is deducted from the total price of DKK 65.000. The balance of DKK 64.000 is due on signing of the ownership contract, which we send within 14 days of your reservation.
Kattie Pauline Nielsen is the co-founder of Q Distillery and Greenland's first and only Master Distiller. She oversaw Greenland's first ever whisky distillation in April 2026. Every Founders Cask is filled personally by Kattie and bears her signature on the ownership certificate.