Shulin, New Taipei, Taiwan · Funny craft distillery EST. 2024
Spirits can be a little more fun.
From Taiwanese molasses and local ingredients to every trial in fermentation, distillation and cask, we keep asking: how many more flavours are possible?
We treat distilling as grounded exploration — serious about experiments, and serious about sharing the story behind every bottle.
About Funny Distillery ↗Adding Taiwanese terroir to the world's favourite spirits.
Bringing Taiwan's farm produce and creativity into spirits the world already loves.
Every bottle has an interesting story.
Every bottle is a question — from Taiwan's 17th-century sugar trade to where Eastern and Western distilling meet.
Taiwan molasses · brown-sugar shaved ice · grass jelly
World Rum Awards 2026 Silver · IWSC 2026 Bronze
Sherry cask · smoked plum maltose · dried pineapple
IWSC 2026 Silver · 91 pts
Baked apple · grass jelly honey · dried roselle
A Taiwan rum made to sit beside a cigar
World Rum Awards 2026 Bronze · IWSC 2026 Silver · 93 pts
Taiwan raw sugar × malted barley · fresh fruit
Dunder and mixed steaming · rich and deep
World Rum Awards 2026 Gold
Wholemeal toast · white flowers · tropical fruit
IWSC 2026 Bronze
Malt and honey · cocoa and walnut · monk fruit
IWSC 2026 Bronze
15-year-old malt · green apple · toffee
Sarsaparilla · vanilla · toast · spice
Pairs and sets of our rums
Starting from Taiwan, recording our curiosity in flavour. Product enquiries ↗
Change the method — what new flavour appears?
Funny is more than a name. From yeast and gas-washing to wood and still settings, every experiment looks for a new flavour answer.
Leaving room for curiosity to experiment.
A modified Lomond still with adjustable reflux, plates and run conditions — up to four rectifications in a single distillation. A central copper purifier lifts the copper-to-wash ratio to 9.33, above the 4.95–6.58 typical of traditional Scotch stills.
Inside the distillery ↗Molasses from Taisugar's Huwei mill, distilling malt from Scotland and Europe, top-grade M-series yeast and PD39A — a Taiwan-native yeast selected with Dr. Isheng Tsai at Academia Sinica. Our soft water traces back to the forests around Yuanyang Lake and Smangus.
More on ingredients ↗New American oak, French oak and Spanish sherry casks each bring their own aroma and texture. Our team has worked with US, French and Spanish cooperages across more than 52 cask types and 300,000 casks.
Our cask strategy ↗Temperature-controlled on-grain fermentation, reflux in the still and the cask all interact. From the brown-sugar notes of molasses to the floral fruit of experimental new make, every flavour has a source.
See the experiments ↗Letting the world taste Taiwan's fun.
Let's distil an interesting idea into something real.
Funny Distillery and Dr. Isheng Tsai of Academia Sinica explored the Taiwan-native yeast PD39A, bringing strain research into sugarcane-spirit flavour development.
Background ↗Have an ingredient, process or product idea? We can start from fermentation, distillation, cask choice and flavour goals, and design a development path together.
Talk to us ↗Matured in large casks, then finished in your own numbered 50 L cask — about 70 to 80 bottles. Or a 10 L Timeless Cask to take home.
Enquire ↗Travelling the world, bringing curiosity home to Taiwan.
From barley fields and working distilleries to stills and casks, we keep observing, asking and learning — then bring it home to keep exploring Taiwan's own flavours.
One ear of barley, one distillery, one cask.
Every visit brings home a new question.These photos record what we explored and learned in different places — and feed the experiments we keep running back in Taiwan.
Using resources better, so more good things can last.
Heat recovery and two-stage condensing send distillation heat back into mashing, cleaning and sanitising. Our stillage heat-recovery tank pre-warms the next wash and cuts heating energy by about 24%.
Details and results of community partnerships will be shared once confirmed. If you run a local project the distillery could join, we would love to hear from you.
Share an idea ↗Serious about distilling, serious about a fun life.
Distillers, cask geeks and curious people, turning ideas into spirits worth sharing.
Funny Distillery is in Shulin, New Taipei. We bring hands-on experience from distilleries around the world into an urban craft distillery built to keep trying.
Our story ↗Started with homebrew competitions and grew into distilling. Brings a recycling-industry background to how the distillery reuses resources.
"I have a bold idea." First-generation manager of China's largest whisky distillery; Heriot-Watt brewing and distilling graduate; translator of Whisky: Science, Technology and Marketing.
Founder of a whisky tasting club and a risk-management professional with over ten years in finance, making sure every dollar becomes good spirit.
Former board member of a Taiwan single-malt tasting society. WSET-trained traveller who never skips a distillery — our starting point for food pairing.
Over 20 years from importer sales to running a spirits shop; knows how to put the right bottle in the right channel.
Drop by the distillery sometime.
A 7-minute walk from Nanshulin Station. Come see how we turn ideas into flavour.
No. 11, Dongshun St., Shulin Dist., New Taipei City
Distillery tours NT$300 per person · booking required
0908-194-417 · [email protected]
There are always small things in life worth savouring.