We are barely started, but we already have a real fan club!
These young ladies on Den Hool 6 love it when another brew is ready and they get the residual product, called “brewer’s grain”.

In recent weeks we have been busy making the first test brews. The distillation kettle was also put into operation at the end of February and we also made the first test distillate.
We will use the coming weeks to brew the best possible beer. If we are satisfied with this, then we can officially start distilling.

After a tough search, we found a wonderful, very exclusive whisky bottle!
The bottles and corresponding corks were delivered this week and now we can continue working on the design of the labels and gift packaging. Glasses are also yet to be found.

Last week, the new wort boiler and still were delivered to Den Hool. Over the next few weeks, water will be connected and electricity installed, and then we will need to wait for a pump, which will be delivered in mid-January. As soon as this has arrived, we will be able to get to work!

As of 2015, the Drentsche Schans will be carrying out its own distillation!
Over the past few years, we have started to get the urge to carry out the entire process ourselves, so we have been very busy recently, and after a considerable amount of searching on the internet, study, discussions with other manufacturers, distillers and suppliers, we have decided to carry out our own distillation.
From the barley malt, an alcoholic mush is produced first using the wort boiler, before it can be distilled. All of this will happen on a small scale, but this development means that we can now manage almost the entire process ourselves. Only the malting will be carried out elsewhere.

We are now more than four years further down the line, so there will definitely be people who are wondering how things are currently going with the whisky. Is it already being bottled or not? The answer is: no, not yet!
It looks promising, but we have decided to allow the whisk to mature for six years, so the first DenHool whisky will be available from 2016!

The barrels had not yet been stored in Den Hool for a month or the press had (literally?) already obtained air from it.
In April 2010, in the agricultural trade journal Veldpost, the enclosed article appeared about the developments surrounding the Drentsche Schans.

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