Fjäderholmarna

This guide to Fjaderholmarna traces how a furious Stockholm distiller named Lars Olsson Smith, already dubbed the spirits king for his cheap, highly purified brandy, moved his sales point onto these harbor-mouth skerries in the 1880s to slip past the city's restrictions on his trade. It follows the taverns and women innkeepers who ran trade here since the 1600s, and the Navy and whisky makers who later used the islands. Listen among the smokehouse and craft stalls for the name his brandy eventually took.