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Dear members and angels in the sky,<br>
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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.<br>
"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 ! " :-)<br>
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Cheers, Michael !<br>
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Pascal.<br>
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Kraaijeveld A.R. wrote:
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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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Fly, you greatest fool
Why can't you say what they want you to
Why can't you do what they taught you
And show what they wanted of you
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Dr Alex R Kraaijeveld
School of Biological Sciences
University of Southampton
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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 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:professormalt@comcast.net">professormalt@comcast.net</a> op
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<pre wrap="">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
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From: Paul Dejong <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Paul_Dejong@telenet.be"><Paul_Dejong@telenet.be></a>
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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