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er funding is enabling the building of new housing. “The distillery has saved the island,” says Larsen, full of pride.
Hellstrøm leads me to the barrel house. Inside, the air is thick with the heady aroma of maturing whisky. “The island now has a soul,” he says. He’s recounting the other changes that have come to the island thanks to the distillery. A music festival in the church, a crossover with the new art residency.
The sun remains high even at midnight and the buzz of bees deafens conversation – in part thanks to a beekeeper who has set up by the distillery. The whisky has had an effect, but so too has the spirit of the people on this windswept rock in the Atlantic.