Author Archives: Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer
Clynelish 1995-2011, 46%, cask #8658 – Robert Graham’s Dancing Stag
Apparently I had a sample of this whisky sitting on my sample shelf for a while. Don’t how it got there or who brought it. But it was there. And when going through those samples to take on holiday I … Continue reading
Tobermory, batch 1, 53.8% – That Boutique-y Whisky Company
That Boutique-y Whisky Company was launched last year at Maltstock, so it’s nearing its first birthday in early September. In the meantime they have bottled quite a bit of small batch releases, not coincidentally in a pattern comparable to Master … Continue reading
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Glen Garioch Competition winner, part 2
Since Jan McCurdy didn’t get in touch with me during the last week, I decided to reroll the die and pick another winner at random. This time the number generator came up on 1, which happens to be my friend … Continue reading
A Brown Drink and a white-ish drink
I tried to go through some of the 100-odd samples I have in my backlog during our Scotland trip. I didn’t get very far of course because you buy new stuff, and beers, and you go out for food too. … Continue reading
Three Taliskers (2/2)
The second batch of three Talisker whiskies and the second half of the tasting at the distillery. Without further ado: Talisker Distiller’s Edition 2012, 45.8% A batch release with, according to the tour guide, significant differences between batches. One is … Continue reading
Three Taliskers (1/2)
During my visit to the Talisker distillery and the fact that our cottage was about 50 meters from the entrance to the visitor center, I was able to do the extensive tasting tour. The difference in the tour is, as … Continue reading
Glen Garioch Competition Winner
It’s been over a month since I announced the Glen Garioch competition on the blog. Of course, their competition had been running a little while longer than that but just before it ended I joined in with some goodies to … Continue reading
Glen Ord distillery
In a way, we also visited Glen Ord distillery during our recent travels in Scotland. It was the closest to our cottage near Abriachan. I said ‘in a way’ since we didn’t really go inside as our wee daughter wasn’t … Continue reading
Talisker distillery
The first half of our week on Skye we had a cottage right across from the Talisker distillery. My wife booked the cottage without checking Google Maps so I was kind of grateful I couldn’t be blamed for that. It … Continue reading
Malt Fascination 