Author Archives: Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

On a recent trip to the Zeewijck liquor shop in IJmuiden to discuss my volunteering at the festival last Saturday, I found some rather interesting beers. Black Scottish Ale matured in Highland Park whisky casks. Quite unexpected, even to me … Continue reading →

And I don’t mean the one in England, because there is another one in Alameda, California. From the windows you can see San Francisco, and the distillery is located in a hanger in an abandoned naval base. That kind of … Continue reading →

Sometime last week I promised to start blogging again with renewed vigor and all that. Thusfar, not much has come from that and that got me thinking. I love the blog, I love blogging and I love the ‘culture’ around … Continue reading →

Another company visited during my travels, this time a brewery. It was more or less an accident we visited this one, since we took a wrong turn on Highway 1 and drove to Boonville instead of following the coastline towards … Continue reading →

On my recent travels I also visited some booze induced locations, like Utah’s High West Distillery in Park City. At first I was rather surprised to find a distillery in strictly regulated Utah, but I guess its not as bad … Continue reading →

I’m back! After my short period of not posting and my quite long vacation I’ve got new energy to start posting again and quite a few plans to follow too! I will try to get some of the tasting notes … Continue reading →

Currently, I am not available for blogging due to some long awaited time off. I am travelling the USA and seeing some really nice things there. Seattle, Yellowstone, the Great Salt Lake and eventually San Francisco. While I tried writing … Continue reading →

Recently I received a new comment on my blog on the review I did on “The world’s best whiskies”. For some reason something went wrong in moderating it, but I would still like to react here. The comment: I have … Continue reading →

I guess this is another first… A whiskey liqueur on my blog. And not a very upmarket one like Drambuie 15 or something exquisite from Master of Malt, but a rather regular one. I have to place one note: I … Continue reading →