Malt Maniacs began as a ‘virtual’ collective around the Malt Madness website. For a long time we interacted almost exclusively via e-mail and the world wide web, but gradually we started to meet more often in real life as well. In fact, the first ‘maniacal’ meeting occurred in 1998 between Craig Daniels and Johannes van den Heuvel in Amsterdam. Our ‘live’ dramming sessions were very instructive and lots of fun, but they also added another dimension to our ‘malt mania’.
So, nowadays there are several occasions around the year where maniacs meet in real life. However, because we live all around the world there simply are some physical limitations to the number of ‘live’ events we can organise. That’s why we welcomed the invention of novelties like Twitter and Facebook. You can now follow us on Twitter or join Malt Maniacs & Friends on Facebook if you’d like to participate in our discussions. The last time we checked our stats we already had more than 2,950 friends on Facebook – which could very well be higher than the cumulative number of actual friends that we have in real life. Just check out a malt maniac’s personal profile if you want to know more…
Overview of all ‘certified’ maniacs
Clicking on the name of one of the 29 certified malt maniacs will (usually) lead you to his or her profile on Facebook. Quite a few certified maniacs do have web sites of their own – you can reach those via the links at the right.
| Name | From | Born |
Joined | Website |
| Joe Barry | South Africa (East London) | 1945 | 2007 | Uisgebeatha Whisky Club |
| Patrick Borschette | Luxemburg | 1971 | 2016 | n/a |
| Patrick Brossard | Switzerland (Basel) | 1974 | 2016 | Whisky News |
| Ulf Buxrud | Sweden (Malmö) | 1942 | 2005 | Ulf Buxrud’s Whisky Site |
| Benjamin Chen | Singapore (Singapore) | 1987 | 2011 | Singapore Whisky Blog |
| Luca Chichizola | Italy (Torino) | 1974 | 2007 | n/a |
| Craig Daniels | Australia (Adelaide) | 1957 | 1997 | Malt Whisky Society of Australia |
| Paul Dejong | Belgium (Meeuwen-Gruitrode) | 1965 | 2009 | n/a |
| Mark Gillespie | USA (Haddonfield, NJ) | 1962 | 2007 | WhiskyCast |
| Lawrence Graham | Canada (Victoria) | 1958 | 2005 | Whisky Intelligence |
| Konstantin Grigoriadis | Austria (Vienna) | 1965 | 2007 | Konstantin (Yes, that’s the name) |
| Rich Howard | USA (Minneapolis, MN) | 1967 | 2010 | Rich Cafe |
| Olivier Humbrecht | France (Turckheim) | 1963 | 2003 | Biodyvin Society (in French) |
| Robert Karlsson | Sweden (Växjö) | 1975 | 2006 | Wexio Maltwhiskysällskap |
| Davin de Kergommeaux | Canada (Ontario) | 1948 | 1999 | Canadian Whisky |
| Oliver Klimek | Germany (Oberschleißheim) | 1968 | 2011 | Dramming |
| Lex Kraaijeveld | UK (Southampton) | 1962 | 2003 | n/a |
| Pit Krause | Germany (Regensburg) | 1974 | 2007 | Slowdrink.de |
| Thomas Lipka | Germany (Bremerhaven) | 1959 | 2009 | n/a |
| Charles MacLean | UK (Edinburgh) | 1951 | 2005 | Whiskymax |
| Nabil Mailloux | Canada (Kingston) | 1970 | 2009 | n/a |
| Martine Nouet | UK (Port Charlotte) | 1951 | 2005 | n/a |
| Krishna Nukala | India (Hyderabad) | 1955 | 2000 | n/a |
| Louis Perlman | USA (New York, NY) | 1959 | 1997 | n/a |
| Tim Puett | USA (San Jose, CA) | 1970 | 2010 | The Ardbeg Project |
| Patrick De Schulthess | Switzerland (Geneva) | 1965 | 2010 | n/a |
| Peter Silver | USA (New York, NY) | 1957 | 2003 | The Jazz Dentist |
| Serge Valentin | France (Turckheim) | 1960 | 2001 | Whiskyfun |
| David Wankel | USA (Los Angeles, CA) | 1970 | 2009 | Los Angeles Whisk(e)y Society |
| Keith Wood | Germany (Erding) | 1959 | 2011 | Whisky Emporium |
| Ho-cheng Yao | Taiwan (Taipei) | 1971 | 2004 | Taiwan Single Malt (in Chinese) |
Retired Maniacs
Johannes van den Heuvel (Holland)
Klaus Everding (Germany)
Michael Wade (USA)
Patrick Whaley (USA)
Matti Jaatinen (Finland)
Jay Rozeboom (Japan)
Luc Timmermans (Belgium)
Alexander Van Der Veer (Holland)
Bert Bruyneel (Belgium)
Chris Bunting (Japan)
Martin Diekmann (Germany)
Roman Porparov (Israel)
Mark Adams (USA)
Ralfy Mitchell (Isle of Man)
Dave Broom (UK)
Michel van Meersbergen (Holland)