Sorry, be advised that this is an 'orphan' page!

When we re-launched the Malt Maniacs website in 2006 (after a massive crash
of the original Malt Madness site), we had megalomaniac plans to develop the
ultimate whisky web site. We thought we would need lots of different sections
on this site to provide enough room for all the wonderful fresh whisky articles
that we would be writing. As it turned out, we were a little too optimistic...
 
Shortly after the re-launch of Malt Maniacs, various 'social media' like Twitter
and Facebook started to emerge. They filled a lot of the needs & wants that
we had intented to fill with some of the new site sections, so a few years later
we decided to simplify the structure of Malt Maniacs again and remove a few
of those extra pages - and this 'office' page was one of those pages. We've
kept it on-line though, to prevent visitors from encountering too many broken
links. Please select one of the options at the left to visit more recent web pages.

Besides, most of the professional writers already posted (some of) their scores in more 'main stream' publications...
If you feel overwhelmed by the numbers on thousands of whiskies in the matrix and the monitor, check out the MaltMenu in our bar.
It contains around 200 widely available and affordable official bottlings - the sort of whiskies you might find in your average whisky bar.
 
That's all for now - the Malt Maniacs website is still being reconstructed, please bear with us for the next few months...
Or join the MM mailinglist, of course - if you want to receive regular updates by e-mail about the progress at least.
Oh well, if you wanted to receive regular updates I guess you would have joined the mailinglist already a long time ago ;-)
 
Johannes van den Heuvel
Editor Malt Madness / Malt Maniacs

Ah; please step into our office... Since our humble beginnings in the 1990's, our site has been growing and
growing - very much like our condition; malt mania. In 2007, I was forced to split the site into a number of
different sections, and this is one of them, all dedicated to scores, numbers and statistics.
 
First of all, there's a page about our scoring system with a number of views of various maniacs on the
basic idea of scoring whiskies. The actual 'meat' of this site section consists of the MM Matrix (the whiskies
that were sampled by four or more maniacs), the MM Monitor (all malt whiskies that we've ever sampled,
collectively) and our MM Awards section (with details about the results of our whisky competition in 2003,
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The MM Matrix and MM Monitor are based on the same data, but
both give different perspectives on it. While the monitor offers an overview of every whisky we've
collectively sampled thus far (single malts as well as blends, grain whiskies, Irish whiskeys, etc.) the
matrix focuses more on 'the big picture', only listing those whiskies that were seriously sampled and scored by at least four different, certified maniacs.

The matrix and the monitor are quite massive in their own right (two and four megabytes, respectively) but the largest number of pages can be found in the Malt Maniacs Awards section. Apart from the complete results for the MM Awards for the years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 the section contains a few additional pages with useful information as well, like the overview of all medal winners.  There you can find out which whiskies won gold, silver or bronze in the past. Just keep in mind that it's no mean feat to win a bronze medal in the Malt Maniacs Awards - let alone silver or gold. Visit the rules & regulations page if you want to know more about the 'guidelines'. One of those guidelines is that the 'semiprofessionals' of our team (the whisky writers) can't take a seat on the jury. They can't publish their scores on the matrix / monitor either, for that matter. We love and respect our writers dearly, but we are an amateur organisation at heart and we want our collective scores to keep representing an independent perspective.

A selection of the wise whisky words that were on this web page;