Early December I hosted a sold-out Talisker tasting in the Rolf Benz Lounge of the Ghelamco Arena, home to the AA Gent soccer team. I am happy to share my personal notes on the line-up and will start…

In Blaasveld (Belgium) the brewery Het Anker continues to distill their prize-winning Gouden Carolus whisky. They just released their 5th anniversary edition ‘Victor’. But for the 25th anniversary of…

The brewery De Graal in Brakel (Belgium) – active since 2002 – is best known for its lovely beers-on-demand. Clubs, companies or restaurants can have their own recipe brewed into their own beer. But…

This Brutus is a single cask release at cask strength of this ‘Belgian’ single malt August 17th. It matured for 5 years (the ‘regular’ August 17th only 3 years). I have put Belgian in parentheses as this…

In 2016 5 friens from Gembloux (Belgium) - Thierry, Ludo, Gwen, Laurent and Pascal – got together with the plan to launch a Belgian whisky. They used Crowdfunding and in December 2016 reached their goal…

Millstone does not appear on my radar very often, to be honest. This is only my third! Anyway, this Dutch whisky is peated and matured on a first fill PX cask. It was bottled by Patrick and his team for…

Jan Beek has been enchanted by distilled spirits for decades. So much so that he decided to go pro last year and launch his own brand ‘BEEK’. His portfolio contains quite a lot: bitters, gin, rum, geneva…

Cley from Rotterdam – founded in 2015, which explains why the product only sees the light of day now – will start the production of their own biological single malt as of October 2018. But I enjoy their…

A new Dutch distillery has emerged: Cley. The distillery can be found in the heart of Rotterdam. Their whisky is produced from a malt and rye based 17th Century recipe. It is triple distilled and then…

This is the end of an era… with this 10th edition, the infamous Smoking Buffalo series – a smoked whisky in honour of AA Gent, a Belgian premier league football team – comes to an end. For their 10th and…