Author Archives: Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

Hadn’t gotten around to this post once again, and once again I almost forgot to write it at all. Luckily I thought of it just before I started typing tasting notes to a Lagavulin I recently emtied. I didn’t have … Continue reading →

After last week’s post on brewing at De 7 Deugden, I still owed the post about their beers. Usually at the end of the month or just in the new month I do a post on the best beers I … Continue reading →

I’ve decided I should take a more thorough approach to which bottles I have and want to keep in my collection so I decided to sell some of them. This has several reasons, but the main trigger for updating this … Continue reading →

De 7 Deugden is a very small brewery on the outskirts of Amsterdam. Technically it’s not much more than a large garage with a tasting room and a little shop. Thanks to Groupon I was able to procure a Brewing … Continue reading →

Just a quick update on the Special Releases from Diageo for this autumn. It seems I have to sell another kidney to get a sip of all of them. Bottle-Share anyone? I can try to get them all if enough … Continue reading →

The PBSD, as I’ve just named it, is a drink that does hommage to the paxerette sherry casks of the 1960’s and 70’s. What is paxerette, I hear you ask. In short it’s a sherry reduction smeared on the inside … Continue reading →

Ah, Glenturret. Home of The Famous Grouse and its experience. I don’t know all that much about this distillery apart from the fact that it’s a small one in the Scottish Highlands. There isn’t much info on the website about … Continue reading →

Not the distillery but the whisky itself. Usually I have some more information in the title, like age and bottler. None of that is available here. Today’s whisky is the regular € 25 bottle of Tamdhu, no age, distillery bottling. … Continue reading →

As far as I know Sestante is a bottler of old. When you hear the name it usually together with a certain amount of reverence and awe. Not strange, if you look at the average scores on WhiskyBase.com or the … Continue reading →

Balmenach is a very unknown and unexplored distillery for me. There are almost no official bottlings, apart from some very old ones and a Flora & Fauna edition from 2010. My first one was a Blackadder bottling that I tasted … Continue reading →