The Next Level of Homemade Drinks
Single Malt from Germany already is quite normal, but rye and other US style whiskeys are a bit of a novelty. I already featured the Stork Club rye whiskey here on the blog. However, Florian Faude is new to the game. So, I thought I put both distilleries head to head!
On to the second part of our American whiskey tasting! This time the bourbon and ryes have all more than 55 % ABV. So, it was getting a bit hard to find all the flavours hiding beneath the alcohol that evening. Yet, we managed to come up with some halfway decent tasting notes.
Well, I came up with this drink as a kind of „Scotch Zombie“, but it did not quite make the cut into „Tropical Month“. While the drink is very good, it did not feel „tropical“ enough. Instead, it reminded me of a more powerful Penicillin Cocktail. This is why I am writing about it now […]
It took a while since our distillery visit for me to present a detailed look at one of the Teeling whiskeys. Therefore, I came up with a drink which is a combination of two of my favourite Whiskey Sour variations, and it uses the Teeling Single Malt! This means the recipe includes amaretto and fortified […]
We take a short break from gin today for this festive malt. Every year The Whisky Exchange bottles a single malt whisky especially for the holidays. After last years exquisite bottling I just had to get my hands on this years edition. This year’s A Fine Christmas Malt is a 10-year-old cask strength whisky from […]
We were on holiday in Ireland for the last couple of days. Of course, we also had to visit an Irish whiskey distillery. Since I had good experience with their whiskeys, we chose the Teeling distillery in Dublin. Apart from the tour, I also had the great pleasure of bottling my very own bottle of […]
When you think of heavily peated Islay single malt, you often think of the distilleries on Islay’s South coast. However, since a few years another distillery on the island set out to challenge the familiar names in the peated malt business. Bruichladdich, a traditionally none peated single malt, also has a line of heavily peated […]
I have been to a few distilleries so far. However, I never visited a pure whisky distillery. So, just I had to visit the Slyrs Bavarian Single Malt distillery when I was in the neighbourhood. The home of the Slyrs Single Malt is absolutely worth a visit. Here is the full story of the Bavarian […]
The unique beer death match continues with two abbey style beers. While, the La Trappe is the only real Trappist beer which is brewed in the Netherlands, the St. Bernardus beer comes from Belgium. Both beers have exactly eight percent ABV. However, because one is a Dubbel and the other one is a Tripel style […]
As promised with the Riedenburger Sommer Sud, here is my review of its bigger brother the Riedenburger Dolden Sud IPA. Right away I can tell you that this is one of my favourite IPAs. It has just a perfect balance between flavour and quaffability. What also helps is that the best place for drinking craft […]
