“Here at Thy Whisky, we self-produce almost everything we need for our spirit,” said co-founder Andreas Poulsen at one point throughout the distillery tour. “The only products we buy from the outside are the casks,” he went on, “and the wood chips (more…)
Fifty years of full sherry cask maturation – split across two high-class indie bottlings with beautiful labels and even more beautiful whiskies inside! That’s how I would describe DeinWhisky.de’s new Inchmurrin duo in a nutshell. If you have not heard of Inchmurrin before, let me tell you (more…)
Later this month, I will drive up north for a guided tour of Stauning Distillery in Denmark. This will be my second visit to the place, however, I am sure that this time will be completely different from the previous one. Cause when I first dropped by there almost six years ago, Stauning was still (more…)
For my friends and me, BORCO Marken Import’s annual World of Whisky festival at the museum harbor in Hamburg-Oevelgoenne is a must-visit event every year! After all, the company behind the event is the German importer of many top-notch whisk(e)y brands (more…)
Today, drammers in my home country and abroad celebrate the “Day of German Whisky”. For me, this marks a perfect opportunity to introduce you to the new independet whisky merchant Malts of Germany, and tell you about the fantastic tasting I had with them earlier this week. (more…)
Admittedly, I have not been super-fast with my reviews for these three special releases from DeinWhisky.de. Before I finally poured their contents into a glass and savored them, the wee sample bottles waited in my drawer for quite a few weeks. But now I finally wrote (more…)
On Friday, 26 May 2023, Danish boutique distillery Fary Lochan held another online tasting. As has become their common practice, the Farre-based whisky makers took a stroll through the on-site warehouses before. From there, they picked a total of five very special cask samples (more…)
If you have not yet come across The Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s bottle code G16 before, that’s because it is brand new – and it will most likely not be used all too often! After all, it refers to a special breed of grain whisky made at an urban production site that normally produces malt whisky (more…)
And the party goes on … in late May 2023, Munich-based specialist whisky shop Sieberts Whiskywelt – run by expert drammers Marcel and Başak – celebrated its fifth anniversary. While the on-site festivities are mostly over now, the commemorative birthday bottling, (more…)
Courageous and creative indie bottlers Brave New Spirits picked their name for a reason. After all, the Glasgow-based whisky mavens often release bottlings that have colorful designs, curiosity-raising names, and out-of-the-ordinary maturation histories. Whereas their latest outturn – Cask Noir – took inspiration from the hard-boiled detective movies of the 1940s and 1950s, (more…)
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