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A few years ago I bought half a bottle of this from Jeroen Koetsier, aka Fullproof when he was selling some samples and such. It took me a while to empty it, but I was in no rush to finish … Continue reading →

Lukasz from Alembic Comms and The Edinburgh Whisky Blog hosted another Twitter tasting recently. I haven’t gotten around to blogging about it yet, since there was a little festival called Maltstock the next day (and the day after, and the … Continue reading →

The last three posts were about Maltstock’s masterclasses, Speciality Drinks, Master of Malt and The Balvenie. What is still lacking is the general impression of the festival. The Friday started by picking up Tom at his home in Amsterdam, then … Continue reading →

I have never been a huge Balvenie fan and the biggest reason for going to this tasting to see what all the fuss is about, and to see Sam Simmons in the flesh. He’s supposed to be a rock star … Continue reading →

The first masterclass of the festival and according to everyone traditionally late. Being approximately half an hour late the Speciality Drinks mastertclass began. There were five drams in front of me from their line so all was ready to go. … Continue reading →

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 →