How a 13 year dry spell changed a nation

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Read about Carry Nation, the hatchet wielding joint smasher in the Special Edition of Distiller’s Trail. Just sign up for the Free Newsletter. Read all about how the US voted itself dry 100 years ago from today, about the first states that ratified the 18th Amendment to the Constitution and more stories. Lees verder How a 13 year dry spell changed a nation →

Remembering Rita

At exactly a 100 years ago today on January 8, 1920 Jessie Roberta ‘Rita’ Cowan married her mother’s Japanese lodger at the Calton registry office in Glasgow. It wasn’t the man she loved at first but the freedom that would come with the marriage. Lees verder Remembering Rita →

De whiskykeuze van de zaak: De Waterdrager

De relatief kleine Vestingstad Heusden aan de Bergsche Maas kent gelukkig nog een slijterij. Mijn oog valt op de interessante whiskykeuze en ik besluit, gewapend met mijn passiethermometer, polshoogte te gaan nemen. Lees verder De whiskykeuze van de zaak: De Waterdrager →

The impact of small rye grain Part 2

Published by The Whiskey Wash on January 17, 2020

Images: Zuidam Distillers and Fred Blans

Both Canadian and American history have known rye dominated mash bills for quite some time. One of the experts that is consulted on a regular basis in Europe by Scottish distillers is Patrick van Zuidam (Zuidam Distillers BV) from The Netherlands. Lees verder The impact of small rye grain Part 2 →

The impact of small rye grain Part 1