{"id":139613,"date":"2026-08-03T09:52:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T09:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/139613\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T09:52:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T09:52:02","slug":"the-helsinki-distilling-company-visit-the-citys-best-distillery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/139613\/","title":{"rendered":"The Helsinki Distilling Company \u2013 visit the city\u2019s best distillery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would a city be without its own distillery? Helsinki\u2019s very own, <a href=\"https:\/\/hdco.fi\/tislaamo-distillery-bar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Helsinki Distilling Company<\/a>, sits in the trendy Teurastamo district \u2013 once the workplace of the city\u2019s butchers right up until the 1990s. When two friends launched the distillery ten years ago, it filled a century-old gap: Helsinki hadn\u2019t had a local spirits factory for more than 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Helsinki Distilling Company has more than lived up to the moment. It\u2019s picked up multiple awards for its gins, whiskies and other creations \u2013 including a rather brilliant sea buckthorn schnapps.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, this red-brick distillery has become part of everyday city life. Its atmospheric bar draws a crowd from Wednesday to Saturday for great bar food, beer and wine \u2013 and, naturally, gin and tonics made with its own imaginative but well-balanced gins, flavoured with raspberry, lingonberry or lemongrass. Come the weekend, there\u2019s often live music or a DJ spinning records.<\/p>\n<p>The building itself has had quite a past: it\u2019s been a power plant, a soap factory, a meatball workshop and even a car wash. No wonder it feels so cinematic. One of the owners, in fact, has appeared in Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki\u2019s films \u2013 those deadpan, quietly poetic portraits of Finnish life where melancholy, dry humour and warmth all meet under dim bar lights.<\/p>\n<p>Teurastamo, Ty\u00f6pajankatu 2a R3. The Distillery Bar is open Wed\u2013Thu 16:00\u201323:00 and Fri\u2013Sat 16:00\u201301:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What would a city be without its own distillery? Helsinki\u2019s very own, The Helsinki Distilling Company, sits in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[87],"tags":[459,158,113,458],"class_list":["post-139613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-helsinki","tag-categories-things-to-do","tag-finland","tag-helsinki","tag-things-to-do"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117030967600206596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}