Maltstock 2025 Program

Maltstock is all about you, our guests! Sharing and Enjoying whisky and the company of old and new friends. Bring a bottle of whisky and share it on the sharing tables in the Square, together with the story about this bottle. 

But, Maltstock would not be Maltstock without a great program. Below you can find our top notch Masterclasses, Drinks with… sessions, and other program items such as our great Food and Drinks and the Bierproeven.nu Midnight Cafe.

Masterclasses 2025

This year Malstock will feature FOUR exiting and relaxed Masterclasses on Friday. Everyone with a Maltstock ticket will receive an e-mail so they can let us know their preferences. We will allocate all available seats as relaxedly as possible. You will receive your masterclass itinerary a couple of days before Maltstock starts.

Hosting the Masterclasses this year will be:

• Chichibu - Yumi

• Raasay Distillery - Lucy

• The Whisky Exchange - Billy

• Wakatsuru Saburomaru/ Niigata Kameda - mr. Inagaki & mr. Doda

Drinks with 2025!

On our relaxed Saturday we will be running 20 minutes sessions, starting every 20 minutes, throughout the afternoon, in 3 different locations. Our aim is to have small groups of you, our guests, in a more or less intimate, interactive and relaxed setting with the producers and/ or ambassadors to try their products, highlight tidbits, answer questions etc. These sessions are called “Drinks with…” …and of course are included in your ticket fee.

You choose!

You can choose which Drinks with… tastings you would like to attend on Saturday. Sounds relaxed, doesn’t it? All you have to do is show up on time. Available seats will be filled on a first come, first serve basis. Tastings will be no longer tan 20 minutes. After the tasting, everybody leaves and new guests can join the next tasting.

This is our 2025 Drinks With Schedule with no less than 30 sessions featuring 11 speakers!! (please note, these might be subject to change, check our posters and ask our volunteers on the day)

Other highlights in our program

What else do we have for you ? The main thing of course is still to relax, meet old and new friends and share and enjoy a few relaxed whiskies. At the heart of Maltstock we have the Square, where our guests leave the whisky they have brought to share with fellow enthusiasts. Always great to see what people bring. So much to choose from, impossible to try all in just the one weekend.

(Whisky) stands

We also have a few whisky stands at Maltstock. A good opportunity to try some amazing drams in a very relaxed manner. Please note that these whiskies are not included in the Maltstock ticket. You pay by the dram, but the prices charged are very relaxed indeed.

Arno Borsboom Private collector, Jeroen Koetsier private collector

Arno and Jeroen haven’t missed a single edition yet. Every year they bring an amazing selection of whiskies. Often liquid history. And you can try them for very relaxed dram prices. And if you’re interested in very good Italian wines, please check out Arno’s business www.piemonte-import.nl

Niels Harkink - Dutch Whisky Connection

The Dutch Whisky Connection is a very familiair sight at various high end whisky festivals in Europe. Michiel, Niels and Dianne run their stand with a fantastic selection of the great whiskies of yesteryear and the gems of today, ready for you to taste at very affordable prices. We are proud to announce that Niels and Dianne will be with us at Maltstock this year for Dutch Whisky Connection. You can find him and their whiskies in the Industry room. Please note that these highly collectable whiskies are not free to taste. www.dutchwhiskyconnection.nl

Werry van Leeuwen - Private collection

The owner, host and chef of Sugar Hill restaurant in Arnhem, Werry van Leeuwen, is well know among foodies for his great food, ‘out of the box’ flavour combinations and the special use of ingredients in the food he prepares. Among whisky enthusiasts he is als known for his extensive whisky collection which features very special and quite a lot great Japanese whiskies. Werry will again provide us with a great Midnight Snack, but he’ll also bring part of his collection for you to taste! Please note that these highly collectable whiskies are not free to taste. www.sugarhill.nl

Whisky Quiz by SMWS

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society were part of our quiz last year and kindly offered to host it fro us this year!

Be prepared for 1,5 hours of relaxed entertainment, crazy general whisky knowledge questions and great prizes to be won!

Food and Drinks

As always, food is an important part of a relaxed whisky weekend. We take great pride in arranging good and tasty food! A proper Scottish breakfast will be provided by Wullie and his team from the Hielander Scottish restaurant in Alkmaar. A great start of the day. There will be soup and freshly made sandwiches for lunch. Fruit will be available too! Of course dinner on Friday evening is provided. And Saturday there will be a fantastic BBQ. We’ll also provide relaxed midnight snacks. This year Werry van Leeuwen (Sugar Hill) and our very own Keurslager will be serving us delicious food to get us through the relaxed Maltstock evenings. So there will be lots of impossible to resist treats!

All drinks during the weekend are included: beers, wines, water, soda, coffee, tea. And there will be plenty of whisky as well.

Chocolate and sweets

Inge Lanckacker is the Chef without Restaurant from Belgium. She has prepared lots of sweets and chocolates with and without whisky. Want any advise about combining whisky and food? Inge is the person to talk to! 

Unfortunately, not for free, but not expensive either. And sooooo good!

Midnight Cafe

After a relaxed day of meeting people and tasting whisky it is time for a relaxed drink at the Bierproeven.nu Midnight Cafe. Here we serve relaxed drinks such as soft drinks and beers and a Midnight Snack to help you brave the night!

The lovely and knowledgeable guys from Bierproeven.nu will take care that we will have plenty of choice in beers!

Morning walk

Just start the Saturday morning with a relaxed retox walk hosted by Tony! Let’s explore the relaxed surrounding at de Hatertse Vennen and perhaps try how a dram will taste in the middle of nature! Not to be missed this year! 

Breakfast by Hielander

Our famous real Full Scottish Breakfast by the Hielander Scotch restaurant from Alkmaar will be served in the Breakfast room from:

• Saturday: 08:00 - 10:30

• Sunday: 08:30 - 10:30

Of course you can enjoy coffee, tea, milk or orange juice and toast as well during these opening hours. 

Midnight snack by Sugar Hill

Remember the fantastic midnight snack last year? Werry from Sugar Hill serving us his delicious sausages.

Well, Werry has told us he would love to come to Maltstock again and serve you all another very relaxed midnight “snack”. How relaxed is that?

Werry and his mean BBQ machine can be found at the Chapel on Friday from around 23:00h -ish

Bottle Graveyard

All relaxed things must come to an end! A bottle of whisky only contains a certain amount of ambrosia and eventually the sharing ends!

When it is time to say goodby to our dearly departed, we will bring them to our relaxed Bottle Graveyard, so our fellow Maltstock guests can say goodby and the ones who shared these gems will know their contribution was appreciated and can say farewell too!

Parting sometimes is such relaxed sorrow!

Raffle

Like the years before, this year will again feature our famous raffle. You can win great prizes like whisky goodies but also our Grand Prize: 4 nights accommodation and two meals for your next trip to Scotland!