Foreign correspondent Jacob Krodel reports about his experiences of starting a whisky club in South Korea.

The official results of the Malt Maniacs Awards 2012 are now available. You can find them at the

Malt Maniac Awards Page

Foreign Correspondent Jacob Krodel (currently living in Korea) takes us on a visit to Blaue Maus, a whisky distillery in Bavaria.

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Ralfy Mitchell gives us an insight into a new distillery project in the Scottish Borders and interviews Professor David Thomson, the proprietor of Annandale Distillery.

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A report from Indian maniac Krishna Nukala about a visit to the distillery during the Malt Maniacs’ 15th anniversary trip to Scotland.

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Keith Wood investigates the strange phenomenon of memory flashbacks when nosing a whisky by travelling from the Yorkshire Dales to the limbic system of the human brain.

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We thought our 15th anniversary would be a good opportunity to give our manifesto a bit of a facelift. The essential things have not changed, but we think our guidelines have become visible be a bit more clearly now.

The Malt Maniacs would all like to congratulate Martin Diekmann on his recent marriage and wish the happy couple many great years together, but that’s not all, Martin has decided to retire from The Maniacs to pursue his business as an Independent Bottler with his new label “Maltbarn”.

Martin, we wish you great happiness and success with your new life, congratulations, The Maniacs.

We are delighted to announce that the Whisky Monitor now has surpassed the magic number of

50,000 Ratings

for over

15,700 Bottlings

 The results of one and a half decades of heavy dramming! Now let’s go for the 20,000 bottle mark…