Author Archives: Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

My first rum by the SMWS. While I like a bit of diversity, I still think it a little weird that a WHISKY society goes into rum and armagnac and such. Anyway, I put this in the bottle-share because of … Continue reading →

Sounds like a great plan, right? Lunch and whisky, in Wormerveer at ‘De Vijfde Smaak‘ (the fifth flavour) which is the town next to Krommenie. Fairly close, that is. I went with my father-in-law and tried to get tickets for brothers … Continue reading →

It’s been since I visited the Hielander Whisky Festival in Alkmaar that I tried an Ardbeg. This doesn’t surprise me much, actually, since I am not a huge fan of their new releases, with a few exceptions of course (Corryvreckan … Continue reading →

On our trip through Champagne country we also visited a whisky distillery. I knew there was a distillery there somewhere, since Hans Offringa wrote about it in a Whisky Passion a long time ago. In our motel there was a … Continue reading →

That was theme of this weekend. On Friday we (Thomas, Floris, Joost, Elco and me) left for Reims, for a Saturday full of champagne and whatever we came across. We had booked a hotel which turned out to be a … Continue reading →

My first Auchentoshan in a very long while. I’ve not been giving this distillery much attention for a plethora of reasons. First, there isn’t that much happening until recently when they released 4 (I think) new bottlings for travel retail. … Continue reading →

Another dram from the Bottle-Share with the currently very popular Mortlach. A powerful spirit of which we don’t see nearly enough. It can both handle sherry casks and bourbon casks alike and has enough body to shine through in a … Continue reading →

Yesterday I went to a shop that was on my to-visit-list for a while called “De Man van Drank” (The Booze Man). I heard about it a while ago and it was described as whole sale store for mostly beer, … Continue reading →

Ah, Clynelish! One of my favourite whiskies in almost all age categories. For some reason I’ve taken to some of the Classic Malts from the start. Lagavulin, Clynelish, Caol Ila and Talisker are still favourites from day one. Let’s see … Continue reading →