Finnish whisky was first distilled on 8 November 2001 by Mika Heikkinen of Panimoravintola Beer Hunter's in the city of Pori. There are currently two operational distilleries in Finland, however, there is also a number of projects to bring forth many more in the future. Panimoravintola Beer Hunter's was founded on 8th of April 1998 in the city of Pori.

However, at first it only served as a restaurant and a brewery. On 8th of November 2001 at six PM, self-taught Mika Heikkinen begun distilling the first batch of malt whisky produced in Finland. The first batch's casks are to be opened in 2034 when Mika Heikkinen turns 60 years of age.

An auction of 100 bottles of Old Buck whisky from the second batch was held on the 1st of December 2004 and the rest was resealed back into the casks. Future batches will mainly be sold to wholesalers in hand blown bottles made by Estonian Tarbeklaas. The copper stills used by Beer Hunter's were manufactured by German Arnold Holstein and the casks used are old sherry casks from Spain and new ones from Portugal.

In April 2004, Beer Hunter's had produced a total of 2000 liters of malt whisky. Beer Hunter's Old Buck second release was also chosen by Jim Murray as the "European Mainland Whisky of the Year" in his "Whisky Bible 2009". Murray describes the whisky as "pure bourbon: with the nose offering every degree of honeycomb-liquorice imaginable".

According to Mika Heikkinen "If there was to be a page written about us, I do not know how we would be described. I feel that we can produce malt whisky like Glenfiddich without a smoky aroma, as well as Laphroaig style smoky whisky." Teerenpeli (Dalliance, literally: Black grouse play) started brewing beer in 1995 in the city of Lahti. The distillery begun its operations seven years later, in 2002.

Teerenpeli Distillery is independent company owned by Mr and Mrs Anssi Pyysing. In 2008, Alko (Finnish national alcoholic beverage retailing monopoly) begun retail sales of their first entirely Finnish whisky: Teerenpeli Single Malt 5 yo. Teerenpeli Single Malt 5 yo is bottled at 43% alcohol by volume and the manufacturer describes its palette as vanilla with a fruity aroma.

At 2009 was new release of 6 yo. Teerenpeli Single Malt. The bottle and the label were designed by Markus Pyörälä and Valtteri Vitakoski of Lahti University of Applied Sciences's Institute of Design.

Teerenpeli Single Malt is distilled with entirely Finnish malted barley from the Finnish malter Viking Malt and with fresh groundwater from the Salpausselkä ridge. More information www.teerenpeli.com Kolme Leijonaa (Three Lions) is not a Finnish whisky per se despite its Finnish name. Kolme Leijonaa comes as a "blended" and a "pure scotch malt whisky" and both of them are actually "authentically distilled and matured in Scotland, selected, imported and bottled by Altia Corporation, Helsinki, Finland".

Kolme Leijonaa has since been discontinued.

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