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Glenfarclas 1953. The oldest Glenfarclas ever bottled at 58 years old. The oldest whisky I ever tasted (in age, not in the year it was distilled, that was this one). I got this sample as a total surprise a week … Continue reading →

About a year ago I posted about BrewDog’s ‘IPA is dead’ pack with four single hop IPAs. This year, I think in April, a second batch was released with four new and different ones. While last year focused on hops … Continue reading →

The AnCnoc 35 is finally out! There was a twitter tasting with a very select group of people last year, in which I was allowed to join! The tasting notes I wrote down can be found here. The Press release: … Continue reading →

I had to dig real deep to find some tasting notes that I hadn’t published yet. For some reason I keep not getting around to really sitting down and trying some new drams, unfortunately. I have some tasting notes here … Continue reading →

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 →