Today we visited the Zuidam Distillers in Baarle Nassau. Last year we tried to go on a tour but deu to the flue and work we could not make it sadly. This weekend we were going to be in the neighbourhood and wondered if a visit was still possible. So we send an email a couple of days ago to…
Category: Distillery in depth
Filliers Grain Distillery
In March 2013 we made a visit to the Villiers Grain Distillery in Deinze, Belgium. They were established around 1880 when Kamiel Filliers got a license for producing jenever in Bachte-Maria-Leerne in Belgium. At this moment the 5th generation of the family Filliers is still working there as grain distillers on basis of the old…
The Belgian Owl – distillery visit
the sign In October 2012 we went on a little road-trip to Belgium, in order to visit the Owl distillery, where the whiskies of The Belgian Owl are distilled. Around the Dutch city of Eindhoven, we found Studio Brussel on the radio and we left the freeways behind us in order to enjoy the Belgian landscapes and desperately find a…
Visiting Springbank
Because the Springbank distillery would be our first ever distillery to visit, we had made reservations for the gold tour. The distillery is located in Campbeltown, the only city that can call itself a whisky-region, situated on the Kintyre peninsula in the south-west of Scotland. If you ever make the trip from Inveraray to Campbeltown, we…
Kilchoman Distillery (2012 visit)
In the spring of 2012 we were on Islay and were looking forward very much to the visit to Kilchoman Distillery. This is a very new distillery, founded in 2005, and the first to be founded in 124 years on Islay. Located on a beautiful spot near Machir Bay, on the Rockside Farm, between the…
Ardbeg Distillery (2012 visit)
One of the first whisky’ Thomas was mad about, so when we visited Islay in the spring of 2012 a visit to this distillery was something we just needed to do. We arrived at a beautiful location, with clean white buildings and green elements. The beautiful ‘A’ from the logo prominent to be seen on the…
Caol Ila (2012 visit)
Situated on the north eastern shores of Islay, lies the Coal Ila Distillery. Looking out to Jura, and it lovely Paps. We arrived in Port Askaig late in the afternoon of the spring 2012, and decided to try to find the distillery. That was not so hard, just follow the signs all over… 😉 Coal Ila…
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