Welcome to the bar of our madhouse - the place where you can find the maniacs
'after hours', discussing new malt whiskies and all other whisky related matters.
Just like in a real bar (well, most real bars anyway), guests regularly disagree
on topics and if it wasn't for the physical distance between various maniacs
we might even engage in the occasional fist fight. But malt whisky heals all
wounds - any disagreement between malt maniacs never lasts for very long.
However, as bars go, this is a slightly run down place with not much activity.
Not too long after we opened our virtual doors, the Malt Maniacs & Friends
group was launched on Facebook - and most of our discussions moved there.
That doesn't mean that you shouldn't visit our bar every now & then, though...
As far as our discussions are concerned: check out the 'Ask an Anorak' E-pistles that you can find in the ADHD section for now.
As soon as the old archive is finished they will all be available through an 'index' in this site section as well. This section is not finished yet;
please check out the archive for (relatively) fresh E-pistles. The office section is now finished as well, with the MM Matrix, the MM Monitor and
the MM Awards. Join the mailinglist if you want to receive updates via e-mail. Check out WhiskyFun for all daily updates...
Enjoy!
Johannes van den Heuvel
Editor Malt Madness / Malt Maniacs
The MaltMenu provides an overview of all 'regular' official
bottlings that you're likely to find on the shelves of a
whisky bar or liquorist (Ardbeg 10yo, Balvenie 12yo, Oban
14yo, etcetera) together with 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down'
recommendations. The matrix and monitor are the perfect
toys for data freaks, but beginners that just want to make
a 'short list' of recommendable and widely available whiskies
are better off with the
MaltMenu and the 'Specials' section.
Apart from our recommendations (based on the average
scores from all maniacs, but factors like price as well) each
malt whisky is described with tasting notes & comments.
For one thing, once the archive section is reconstructed
we will provide an overview of all 'Ask an Anorak' articles
we've written over the years. Those discussions tend to
be a little more
elaborate than the ones on Facebook
because not all maniacs are regular visitors of our forum.
In order to keep the list as brief as possible, we've selected a maximum of three official expressions for each distillery in Scotland. Whiskies from Japan, Ireland and the USA may be added later, but for now I'll have to direct you to the Lex-icon in the library. It contains an overview of all malt whisky distilleries in the world, maintained by Lex Kraaijeveld. If you'd like to read more tasting notes on Scotch single malts, I'll have to direct you to Malt Madness and Whiskyfun for now. Eventually we may launch our own Malt Maniacs database, but I'm afraid that's still a pipe dream at the moment...
Apart from our own lists of discussions and noteworthy whiskies, this section of our website also contains an overview of World Wide Whisky Events maintained by greek malt maniac Konstantin Grigoriadis. It provides dates and details of whisky festivals and tastings around the world, as well as a list of recent reports on those events in our E-zine.
