[MM-MALTS-L] The Big Toast - malts-L's tribute to Michael Jackson

[Pascal De Schepper]

Dear members and angels in the sky,

As Michael once stated that Belgian beers are the best in the world, 
I've drunk an Affligem last night.  He rewarded this beer as the best of 
the best.
"Affligem" is now property of "Heineken", the famous Dutch brewing 
company. Thank God they have a new "brewing manager" now.  He's from 
Belgium.  Concerning the quality and taste of the ordinary Heineken 
lager, he said in his maiden speech : " And now, we finally will brew 
beer ! "   :-)

Cheers, Michael !

Pascal.




Kraaijeveld A.R. wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I feel it would be fitting for malts-L to have its own tribute to Michael Jackson. What I thought we could do is to have as many people as possible raising a glass to his memory. Let me know which dram you've chosen and I'll collate everything for a write-up. 
>
> To kick things off, for me it had to be a Macallan. But I couldn't chose, so will be raising three glasses tonight: 
>
> Macallan 1989 (Dewar Rattray)
> Macallan 1987 (Signatory)
> Macallan 21 y.o. (Scott's Selection)
>
>
> Come on, let's make this a really big toast!
> Lex
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> Dr Alex R Kraaijeveld
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mm-malts-l-bounces at grsnet.net on behalf of Michel van Meersbergen
> Sent: Thu 30/08/2007 18:24
> To: MaltManiacs operated former 'MALT-L' Whisky List
> Subject: Re: [MM-MALTS-L] CELP & seaweed
>  
> Hi Brian,
>
> Just two things, and as a Dutchmen I have to do this... ;-)
>
> The 'Fishky' is from Berlin, Germany and it's a Bruichladdich... Irony in
> it's most perfect form...
>
> Cheers!
>
> Michel
>
>
> op 30-08-2007 19:15 schreef professormalt at comcast.net op
> professormalt at comcast.net:
>
>   
>> I am somewhat bemused by this, the longest thread so far in the fledgling
>> MALTS-L Mk..II.  I can attest to the integrity of the Van Wees clan and the
>> fact that they did not expect people to take any of this seriously. I guess
>> you have to understand Dutch humor a little bit.  The whole thing, the weed,
>> the "seaweed experience" the little lore on the label, its all a farce, or as
>> the Brits put it, a piss take on the whole trend to produce an "altered"
>> whisky.  
>>
>> The last time I was in the shop they had a new one "Fishky Whisky" to
>> celebrate that most Dutch of all celebrations, the new Herring harvest.  A
>> perfectly good Bunna "finished" in a herring barrel, brilliant!
>>
>> I thought they had somewhat cleverly gotten around the SWA, by not uttering
>> "Scotch Whisky" nor mentioning "Scotland" anywhere on the label "distilled and
>> bottled in the EU".  Does the SWA hold the cards to any appelation of "single
>> malt......whisky"?  To me, the most disreputable thing about the whole kit and
>> kaboodle is the price that these are pulling down at the auctions!
>>
>> Sláinte,
>> Brian
>>
>> -------------- Original message --------------
>> From: Paul Dejong <Paul_Dejong at telenet.be>
>> Hi Lex and all,
>>
>> Celp indeed contains a fresh-water plant called elodia, but don,t go down the
>> path of a "conspiracy theory?
>> The whole thing started of more or less as a joke, and Van Wees had no idea
>> the thing would be so succesfull. The first batch was indeed labelled
>> "whisky?, but the SWA had their say about it, and they had to change it into
>> scottish spirit.
>>
>> Expect it to taste like a young islay should, an islay that is maybe a little
>> "green? because of it,s youth. ;-)
>> And I,m sure they were not trying to hoodwink the customer! I think they saw
>> it as a fun way of riding the wave of the "finishes?!
>>
>> My 2p,
>> Paul
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