I had to wait long on this one, but today Billy – the Belgian representative for Malts of Scotland – would by pass in my neighborhood and he therefor delivered to the Toshan Man’s door. Thomas Ewers, the…

A few months ago my dear friends at the Auchentoshan distillery smuggled out a sample of a soon to be released expression. I did have to promise not to reveal anything until the official release. Since…

After the single cask release bottled for China in 2017 (which took close to military maneuvers to get a bottle to Belgium) another single cask was bottled in 2018, this time for Singapore. Getting that…

La Maison du Whisky does not need an introduction. Very regularly they select casks that are bottled exclusively for their shops. This is one from my favorite Lowlander. This Auchentoshan was distilled…

This Auchentoshan was distilled on 22nd October 1997 and bottled by Signatory on 22nd October 2018, 21 years later to the day. It was selected by online whisky retailer The Whisky Barrel as an exclusive…

We’ve only just rescued the Snowtrooper from behind enemy lines and here is the next commando already. This one has just returned from a top secret mission on distant Islay, where he operated in the…

I think it is fair to say that Rosebank is in the top five of closed distilleries. This King of the Lowlands was shut down in 1993 and for the longest time it looked like it would never re-open. But then…

At the very end of this ‘weird year’ Jürgen Vromans launches a final bottling, again with a great label. The noble man – Jürgen at a later age? – holds a potato with a 1st place medal on it in his hand…

You’ll remember that I only recently tried the 4th release and alluded to number three in this Build Your Own Bearded Commando series. Well, number three has now arrived. No wonder it took him so long…

As long as there is a pandemic, I’ll continue my online whisky tasting, the so-called WhisQy Masterclasses. WhisQy with the Q of Quarantine of course. They are quite popular which makes me happy, for it…