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Another bottle from the Whisky Exchange’s 10th Anniversary line. So far, I really enjoyed all of them except for the Amrut. Maybe it was my sample, but to me there seemed something wrong with it… This Hakushu was one of … Continue reading →

Well, after a few weeks of waiting the bottles finally got in. There were some problems in the Netherlands with there being no importer for a while and the new one taking their time to get the bottles out. Last … Continue reading →

This is another dram from a ‘The Whisky Exchange 10th Anniversary Bottle-Share’ I participated in a long time ago. For some reason I never got around to tasting all samples, or lost my tasting notes. Luckily, I still had some … Continue reading →

Recently I have tasted an amount of beers of which I have already placed some reviews. I did taste some more after that and those reviews will all be below. De Molen – Lente Hop This ‘spring hops’ beer by … Continue reading →

The KCWS is the King’s Court Whisky Society of which I am a member since a couple of months. Its a fairly large whisky club in Haarlem, which is rather close to Zaanstad. The symposium was held because of the … Continue reading →

Last Friday, I finally went to pick up the Mackinlay’s Highland Malt bottles for the Teeny-tiny Bottle-Share. For those bottles, I drove to Bergen op Zoom to see what the DH17 liquor store was all about, since I had never … Continue reading →

No one knows exactly when this bottle of Ballantines was produced, but the bottle is from around 1952. Since everyone is always saying that old blends are better than most single malts are now, I thought it a good idea … Continue reading →

The second book review on my blog! In October of last year a serious amount of whisky books was released. This one and Dave Broom’s World Atlas as well as the annual Malt Whisky Yearbook and Whisky Bible. I hadn’t … Continue reading →

Yesterday was the 14th rebirthday of Ardbeg distillery. On June 20th, 1997 they started distilling again at the iconic Islay distillery and that had to be celebrated! While I haven’t been the biggest fan of some recent bottlings (Rollercoaster, Blasda) … Continue reading →

In my recent surge of beer-drinking I could not just taste different BrewDog beers without giving some attention to the other ‘dog’ that’s rather easily to get. Flying Dog is an American brewery, and one of the few Americans that … Continue reading →