The first proto-version of Malt Madness appeared in 1996. By the end of 2001, it had grown into an uncontrollable malt monstrosity. I was forced
to split the original Malt Madness site into two different websites; the new 'purely personal' Malt Madness site you're looking at right now and Malt Maniacs; a collective effort together with 11 other malt maniacs. Some items that were part
of the previous version of Malt Madness didn't really fit into the new concept and structure, so I've removed them from the main navigation of the site and collected them in this 'Expired' section.
Since then, the site has been growing exponentially.
Right now, the 'Expired' section contains 6 items:
1 - Little Black Book (Replaced by my Big Black Book on January 1, 2002) 2 - 3 -
Contents: Tasting notes on the 200 malts I sampled between 01/01/1996 and 01/01/2002.
Reason for expiration: My little black book became just too little.
Contents: Brief notes on Irish whiskies, blends, vatted malts, etc.
Reason for expiration: I've been sampling single malts almost exclusively lately.
Contents: The 200 malts I sampled between 01/01/1996 and 01/01/2002, ranked from best to worst.
Reason for expiration: Variations between different batches made this list rather useless.
4 - Michael Jackson's Ratings 5 - 6 -
Contents: MJ's ratings for more than 300 single malts, sorted geographically.
Reason for expiration: The majority of the bottlings mentioned are not available anymore.
Contents: A selection from the posts from 'the public' in 2000 and 2001.
Reason for expiration: Not enough contributions to justify a spot in the new concept.
Contents: Warnings people sent me in response to my 'Worst Whiskies of the World' log entry.
Reason for expiration: Not enough contributions to justify a spot in the new concept.
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