Our Place
One mill. All the copper.
Vintre Møller Destilleri in Lejre is where Hammer & Son distils. Henrik Hammer lived for many years in Frederiksberg — a Copenhagen borough that remains in the house’s story, and on a gin label. The work itself is here, on the estate stills.
The distillery
Vintre Møller Destilleri
Winter mills, working again.
Vintre Møller means Winter Mills. The name remembers a settlement that used the stream only outside the farming season. Five mills once took water from Møllebækken and the black springs — Sortekilderne. Grain, wool, beer, mineral water, even electricity for the neighbourhood until 1952. The last brewery closed in 1987. In 2018 the site began a new life as a distillery. It is now the only one the house runs.
Two 500-litre stills, Nini and Mia, are built for gin and whiskey. Smaller coppers take single botanicals — geranium, acorn, cardamom — and experiments. Barley is grown organically on the land. Water comes from a ten-metre artesian well that gives some 50,000 litres a day. The historical mill has been restored with EU rural-development support and is meant, again, to hold whiskey as it rests.
Self-sufficiency here is not a mood board. It is well water, renewable energy, homegrown botanicals, and neighbours who take back spent fruit and grain. Every expression — including Frederiksberg Gin — is distilled on this ground. The motto on the estate is the same as the method: In Concordia Cum Natura.
- Address
- Vintre Møller 29, 4060 Kirke Såby, Lejre Municipality, Zealand, Denmark.
- Stills
- Nini and Mia, 500 litres, plus smaller botanical stills.
- Continuity
- Industry on this water since 1374. Distilling since 2018. Sole production site today.
A borough in the name
Frederiksberg
Henrik’s home. The mill’s gin.
Henrik Hammer lived in Frederiksberg for many years. For Hammer & Son that Copenhagen borough was never a second factory. It was home — parks, gardens, and a neighbourhood close enough to walk — long before the house took on a mill in Lejre.
Frederiksberg London Dry Gin still carries the name. Two botanicals keep the borough in the glass: lavender from the gardens at Landbohøjskolen, and acorns from the oaks in Frederiksberg Have. The copper that makes it sits at Vintre Møller Destilleri in Kirke Såby. One place of production. One mill.
- Henrik Hammer
- Lived in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, for many years — a formative address for the house.
- The gin
- Frederiksberg London Dry, named for the borough, distilled at Vintre Møller.
- The mill
- Vintre Møller Destilleri, Kirke Såby, Lejre — the only stillhouse Hammer & Son runs.
One house, one mill. Frederiksberg was home. The copper is here.
Geranium and Old English were born in an English pot still. Today they are distilled at the mill, like everything else the house makes. Frederiksberg Gin is named for the borough where Henrik lived for many years, and is distilled at Vintre Møller now. The Testament, Green Meadow, and Reinheart belong to the estate. Copenhagen in the biography. Zealand in the stillhouse.