The Next Level of Homemade Drinks
During our second summer vacation this year, we went to the wine and fruit growing region of South Tyrol. Besides vinyards, I also wanted to visit an eau de vie distillery which I had on my list for a long time. Alexander Ortler’s spirits won very high ratings in the Falstaff Spirits Trophy.
Our choice for the first summer vacation as a family fell on Mallorca. Obviously, this meant that I had to visit Stefan Winterling in his new ‘Casa Eva’ distillery. Luckily, he also was happy to have us and invited us to a gin tasting.
On our last trip, we went to scenic Lake Constance to enjoy the lake, apples, wine and of course visit a distillery. In this case the Steinhauser distillery in Kressbronn, which even the New York Times wrote about. They are famous for their highly awarded See Gin, but also make eau de vies and single […]
When going on holidays, I always check out which distilleries are near. So, when we went to the North Sea, we spent a night on Gut Basthorst to visit the Feingeisterei. Besides eau de vies and liqueurs the two also produce gin, rum as well as aquavit. In the future a whisky will complement their […]
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 […]
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 […]
In contrast to my trip to the States, I did not have to travel that far for this new report. Nevertheless, it is about a city every bit as interesting: Hamburg, also has many culinary delights to offer! Besides having great coffee, food and drinks, we also visited another gin distillery!
There a certain things every cocktail lover or bartender should do at least once in his life. – No, I am not talking about a shot of Chartreuse or something like that, but of the the production of spirits. And of course this is one thing you as a spirits connoisseur can not know enough […]
Daniel Priseman advised us in his “10 things every bartender should experience” to visit at least one distillery. I even would go as far as suggesting this not only to bartenders, but to every spirits connoisseur. Luckily, I now had the chance to visit The Duke Gin distillery in Munich!
Sometimes you are just lucky, for instance when you get a call on Friday that you are invited to visit a gin distillery on Monday! In this case, I had the chance to spend some time in Saarbruecken to visit Ferdinand’s Distillery and some vineyards.
