A further period of industrialisation took place in the latter half of the 19th century. New and expensive apparatus capable of producing completely pure distilled spirits by means of rectification were gradually put into use. The potato stills remained in use in the rural areas where the supply of raw material was vital. However, many stills joined forces to establish distilleries or processing companies that could render potato spirit and make finished products for sale- mainly aquavit, bitters, liqueurs and punch.
These distilleries where conveniently located in urban areas, near the markets. The first out was Simers & Co. distillation plant that was established in Christiania in 1857. Løiten Brænderi's Destillation was founded in Christiania in 1871, whilst the distilleries on the west side of Mjøsa joined forces to set up Oplandske Spritfabrik in Stenersgaten, Christiania in 1872. In Trøndelag Jørgen B. Lysholm’s distillery was established in 1821, and procured the state-of-the-art Pistrius distillation apparatus in the late 1840s.
At the turn of the century there were other smaller distilleries including H. Poulsen & Co at Hamar, Tangen Brænderis Destillasjon (owned by P.A. Larsen in Kristiania) and Gerner & Søn at Moss.
