Brennivín Single Barrel Series Hot Sauce Edition 2025 Aquavit
Reykjavík, Höfuðborgarsvæði, Iceland
- ABV
- 40%
- Base spirit
- Grain (unspecified)
- Color
- Gold
- Style
- Barrel-Aged Aquavit
- Maturation
- 2 years in Ex-Red Pepper Hot Sauce cask
Brennivín Single Barrel Series Hot Sauce Edition 2025 is a limited Icelandic aquavit produced under the Brennivín brand. The 2025 release was aged for two years in a single barrel that had previously held red pepper hot sauce and bottled at 42% ABV in a 700 ml format.
The bottling belongs to Brennivín’s Single Barrel Series and was released in a very small run of 295 individually numbered bottles. The neck label identifies it as a 2025, 2 Years release, while the front label names it Red Pepper Hot Sauce Edition.
The unusual cask gives the spirit a pronounced spicy character. Brennivín describes the release as showing bold pepper notes with caraway, with the pepper influence layered over the traditional caraway-led profile.
The 2025 edition was promoted by Brennivín in October 2025. Earlier Hot Sauce Edition bottlings had already appeared in the Single Barrel Series, with Icelandic retail records documenting the concept by 2022.
Bottle gallery
About the producer
Kveldúlfur Distillery
Reykjavík, Höfuðborgarsvæði, Iceland
Kveldúlfur Distillery is the current producer of Brennivín and operates within the Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson group. Vínbúðin identifies Kveldúlfur Distillery as the producer of the standard 40% Brennivín, while Ölgerðin is listed separately as supplier and owns the Brennivín brand.
Kveldúlfur Distillery is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ölgerðin. Ölgerðin’s financial statements list Kveldúlfur Distillery ehf. among the companies owned 100% by the group, alongside Borg Brugghús and several other beverage businesses.
The wider Ölgerðin business was founded in Reykjavík in 1913 by Tómas Tómasson and developed from a small brewery into Iceland’s largest producer of alcoholic beverages. Today the group owns a number of major Icelandic drinks brands, including Brennivín, Gull and Boli, while Kveldúlfur functions as the distilling entity associated with Brennivín production.
The relationship between Brennivín and Ölgerðin is therefore more recent than the spirit itself. Brennivín originated as a state-produced spirit in 1935; after ÁTVR ended alcohol production in 1992, production moved into private hands. The current structure places production with Kveldúlfur Distillery and brand ownership and distribution with Ölgerðin.
Ölgerðin also manages Brennivín as an international brand. Company filings state that the Brennivín word and figurative marks are registered in the European Union and the United Kingdom, while the Brennivín word mark is also registered in Canada.
