The Next Level of Homemade Drinks
In this post, I am wrapping up the last two spirits from the last care package from Matthias Sievert and Spiritus Rex. Matthias distils both spirits from rare wild fruits. Which turned out to be the highlight of this years spirits.
As per usual, I am pretty late to review some samples from Which.de. However, they also publish a new Scottish Single Malt book out. So, I took this as an excuse to write about the recent whiskies and other bottlings.
I have been more than lucky to try a great number of excellent spirits over the last year. So, in good tradition and the spirit of a “the year in review” I am sharing the ten best liquors of 2021 with you. Yes, I know as always I am too late to make this a […]
The German whisky online shop Whic.de already bottles their own whisky. However, this edition is their first standard bottling. Following the current trend, the bottling is a heavily peated Islay Single Malt. So, let us see how the whisky turns out.
The eau de vies distilled by Matthias Sievert continue to extend their lead in flavour further and further. This time I was extremely lucky to try to of Matthias recent bottlings, the Hintperi Raspberry eau de vie and the Sudachi eau de vie. While the former is distilled from fermenting the berries, the latter uses […]
I have already written about Clairin here on the blog. Basically, they are domestic distillates from Haiti made out of sugarcane. The producers mostly use sugarcane juice, but sometimes also a sugarcane syrup. Apart from that, almost every production step is done by hand and combined with the different local sugarcane varieties are the reason […]
The topic of the second Spirited News in 2021 is rye whiskey. In this case both whiskies come from James E. Pepper. While one bottle is a fairly-regular but not less interesting barrel proof rye the other one tests out the limit of what is allowed to be called rye. Apart form that, the 1776 […]
As always with this category I am presenting spirits to you that are new to me. For the first article in this year, it is all about gin. While the trend clearly goes towards more regional spirits, the gins I am writing about today all come from South America. The Canaima Gin from Venezuela and […]
To keep up with traditions, I am presenting you with the ten best rated spirits on my blog this year. For me personally it was the year of the eau de vie. I never before tasted as many fruit spirits. On top of that, the majority were high quality ones. This is also represented in […]
Every year Plantation Rum releases new Single Cask bottlings. This year is no different, with a whooping number of elven different ones. I was lucky enough to get my hands on five samples of the whole range for 2020. So, let us see what master blender Alexandre Gabriel has in stall for us today!
