Pure Spirits: Aichinger Wheat Single Malt Whisky (13 years)

Aichinger 13

Today’s topic will once more be a spirit. A whisky. However, a very unusual one. Today I’d like to introduce the 13 year old Aichinger whisky from Hartkirchen in Austria. What makes it unusual is it’s specific character as a Wheat Single Malt Whisky. While the classical single malt whiskies, as they are known from Scotland and Read More

Cathedral Cocktail

Cathedral Cocktail

I have already referred to the sensitive subject of “beer in Germany” in different contexts. Especially while the current wave of craft beer and microbreweries also grows larger and larger in Germany many people are discussing about the sense and nonsense of the “Reinheitsgebot” (German purity law – Personally, I advocate a reformation of the Reinheitsgebot). When it comes to beer, Germany is a highly conservative country and if people start to talk about mixing beer as an ingredient in cocktails, at least Read More