The Malt Maniacs in Person

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 2,750 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 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. The 34 certified malt maniacs listed below are ranked according to their ‘seniority’, activities on behalf of our collective and independence from the whisky industry…