Author Archives: Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

A small batch bourbon from Jim Beam and a brother to the other three in the series: Knob Creek, Basil Hayden’s and Baker’s. This one is a strong one at almost 60% to 64% ABV, depending on the batch. We … Continue reading →

I still had this straggler standing around from our trip to Islay about a year and a half ago, and it was about time to finish it off. This 13 year old Lagavulin was matured in a 4th fill cask. … Continue reading →

Another very limited bottle that was long gone before I knew it existed. This time, it was bottled for Whisky Magazine and released at Whisky Live London in 2008. It is a 15 year old Karuizawa, matured in an American … Continue reading →

Another sample from the Whisky Live bottlings of last year. The strange thing is that I recall ordering these samples a lot longer ago, but apparently I’m wrong about that. I might have to start cataloguing a little bit better… … Continue reading →

When browsing through my sample shelf and thinking I had to finish off some of those samples finally, I found a nice Highland Park 10 bottled for Whisky Live Belgium 2010, at 59.3%. An original bottling of the Orkney distiller … Continue reading →

De Groote Weiver (facebook) is a place where bands come to play and people go to drink beer. It used to be in Krommenie in an old factory building but due to environmental regulations that had to be demolished, and now the … Continue reading →

Although Jock Shaw does about 100 tastings per year, according to an interview in Whisky Etc., I had never seen him live yet. That changed this Friday at a whisky tasting in Haarlem. The tasting was hosted by the people … Continue reading →

Apart of going to a beer tasting this weekend with (I believe) 5 beers at De Groote Weiver in Wormerveer, I tried quite some beers over the last couple of weeks. I’ll share some short notes. All beers are from … Continue reading →

The autumn is in full swing by now. In the Netherlands it started around half June, just after spring. Autumn means that there will be a lot of whisky events going on around the country, and who would I be … Continue reading →

Drambuie 15, or Yellow Drink in Gaelic, is a whisky liqueur and a special edition of the well know regular Drambuie. This one is made with 15 year old whiskies, instead of the much younger ones in the regular edition. … Continue reading →