Belgian Owl reviews

Let’s finish our line-up of non-Scotch whisky with one from the homefront, bottled at 46% (there is also a version at 76,1%). It is five years old and named officially ’60 months’. Whatever. Let’s taste…

Color: Pale straw. A typical youngster that spent only three years on first-fill bourbon barrels.Nose: The first nosing is quite tangy. Ginger and chili pepper are slapping you in the face. Vanilla ice…

Etienne Bouillon recently made the news by intalling to Caperdonich stills in his Belgian Owl distillery near Grace-Hollogne. The are operational as I write this and Etienne launched a plan to sell the…

The Belgian Owl started production in October 2004. For the third year in a row, Etienne Bouillon is releasing a single malt at cask strength. I tried this one, from cask 4276140 filled in 200ml bottles…

Of all the reviews I've written for this site, I think this is the first world whisky (i.e. not from the traditionally known whisky producing countries). I could be wrong (I'm too lazy to check) but I…

I was quite intrigued to have a taste of my first Belgian single malt and came out pleasantly surprised. This is a 4 year old expression, quite pale in color. Beautifully delicate honeyed nose, like…

I tasted this bottling from Etienne Bouillon at the Whisky Festival in Belgium last Februari and found it quite interesting, so I took a sample home to study. It is a whisky from a refill sherry cask,…

The Belgian Owl is no longer an unknown distillery. Ever since getting a very high score from Jim Murray (95,5 in the 2010 Bible), Etienne Bouillon and his crew in Grace-Hollogne, Belgium, have been hard…