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Google has a somewhat hidden feature that allows you to draw lots of information from the search statistics dating back until 2004. It is called Google Insights for Search and it’s currently in beta stadium.

Yesterday night I received an email asking if I would be interested to join the Malt Maniacs. A question in fact that was not too difficult to answer. Of course I said Yes, and so I am now an official Malt Maniac.

Every now and then real life takes its toll and I have to skip a day or two in posting on this blog. Now I thought it would be a nice idea to be able to fill at least some of these gaps with posts from guest bloggers.

I think it is about time to distill an idea that has been mashing and fermenting in my mind for many months now. The idea was born for a project called Whisky People. It is an open ended series of portraits of … surprise… whisky people.

Almost a year has passed since this site went online. Shortly after I published a list of 5 Essential Whisky Websites that were top of the crop at that date in my opinion. So I thought it was time to revisit that topic and write a new list, this time with a focus on whisky blogs.

Some bloggers are obsessed with their site statistics, some don’t care at all, and I for one am somewhere in between. Every couple of weeks I dig deeply into my Google Analytics page to see what’s been going on on my blog. For those of you who are interested in website statistics as well, I [...]

Beer and whisky are quite closely related as we know, and most whisky lovers enjoy also enjoy a nice beer once in a while. So I think this might actually of interest to some of you.

Yesterday I openend the Whisky Rating page on Facebook. In the first day only, already more than 50 people became a fan of the page. A stunning number that I wouldn’t have expected, although I had sent out some invitations to my existing Facebook friends.

Shockwaves went through the whisky world on January 25, as the Times published the outcome of a blind tasting of five whiskies that they had arranged. The results were stunning: the Taiwanese Kavalan nonchalantly beat three Scotches and an English whisky.