> The Reading List - Which whisky books are recommendable?
A relative novice in the malt whisky world usually doesn't spend a lot of money on books about whisky.
This was true in the 1990's, when you could still obtain a bottle of good single malt whisky for roughly the same price as your average whisky book. And it's still true today, when you can get two or three great books for the price of an average bottle of malt whisky. That's why I felt that it was high time that I paid some attention to this topic with a selection of my favourite whisky books that I'd recommend. After all, a good whisky book can enhance your appreciation and enjoyment of almost every glass of malt whisky that you enjoy afterwards.
That makes even a mediocre whisky book a relatively sound investment...

> The Whisky Industry List - Which owner controls which whisky distillery?
Not many people give a lot of thought to the fact that there is an entire "industry" responsible for the delivery of bottles of whisky to customers all around the world - probably because many of those people are intoxicated at the time of consumption or shortly afterwards. For those that are interested in the "balance of power" in the whisky world, I've added a schematic overview of the ownership relationships in the whisky industry.

> My Whisky Collection - What kind of bottles were in my "reserve stock"?
First of all, the title of this page is a little misleading - I've never owned a "whisky collection" as such.
I recognise the human urge to collect stuff like berries and stamps; many of us are still "hunter-gatherers" at heart. However, while I can relate to the primitive urge to hoard as many bottles of whisky as possible, I also realise that this behaviour has been pushing whisky prices upwards for a few years now. So, a few years ago I decided to get off that "merry-go-round". Nevertheless, I felt that the old page itself still serves a purpose.

> My Little Black Book - What did I nose & taste in my first 500 whiskies?
When I started this web site in 1995, it replaced the little black book (and later the stack of little black books) that I had been using to keep tasting notes. The writings of the late, great whisky writer Michael Jackson had inspired me to keep meticulous notes on all the malt whiskies that I sampled as well. I managed to keep the list organised for a few years and a few hundred drams, but after 500 malt whiskies it was replaced by...

> My Track Record (Part I) - What are my scores for +/- 1000 (A-I) whiskies?
The problem with the world wide web is that the technology just develops too bloody fast.
By the time I had collected tasting notes and ratings for around 500 whiskies, the old HTML page had reached its limit with a height of 30,000 pixels. So, I had to think of another system to help people find my tasting notes. For a few years - and roughly 2,000 whiskies - the "track record" provided my scores and links to the tasting notes in my Liquid Log - but it wasn't long before the first page needed to be expanded with:

> My Track Record (Part II) - What are my scores for +/- 1000 (H-T) whiskies?
The antique tool that I've used to build the Malt Madnes site (NetObjects Fusion) doesn't support very large pages. That's one of the reasons why the MM site and certain pages keep 'growing out of their skin'. That means that I had to add this second page to the "track record" after a few years. But it only took a few more years for the second page to reach its limits as well. At that point I decided to get off that particular treadmill and simply add a selection of all my tasting notes on the distillery profiles in the Distillery Data section.