While the first boards were being introduced in Norway, alarming reports from the USA claimed that tens of thousands of people had been injured in the sport. As a result, the government banned the practice on November 15, 1978.

For the next 11 years, a band of die-hards kept the sport alive underground. The ban was lifted in 1989. Party.

This Quebec version of Taffel Akvavit is the result of a collaboration between Distillerie du Quai and our Norwegian friend, Dag Jørgensen, of the Voss Bryggeri brewery.

Skateboarding is now an Olympic discipline. That’s right!

PS: we just won a silver medal in 2023 at the London Spirits Competition.