9.738 items. One shop.
No idea which bottle yet?
The help from the shop, but online. A few short questions about taste, and the assistant finds the beer or wine to match.
Chapter 01 · Whisky
Smoke and cask make the whisky
Whisky is distilled grain that matures for years in oak. The taste depends mainly on two things: smoke, if the barley was dried over a peat fire, and the cask. A sherry cask gives dark fruit, a bourbon cask vanilla and coconut. Looking for a first bottle? Then first choose between smoky and not smoky.
Chapter 02 · Beer
Yeast determines the character
Beer is water, malt, hops and yeast, and the yeast sets the main direction. Top fermentation gives ales, tripels and stouts, with fruit and spice. Bottom fermentation gives pilsners and bocks, cleaner and drier. Lambic and gueuze ferment spontaneously, with wild yeasts from the air. The gifts are ready-made packages, for anyone who wants to taste without choosing themselves.
Chapter 03 · Wine
Colour, grape and origin
Wine starts with the grape and the place where it grows. Red gets its colour and tannin from the skins, white usually ferments without the skins and stays fresher, rosé sits in between. Sparkling wine owes its bubbles to a second fermentation. On the wine page, choosing therefore goes by colour and then by country: together, those two say the most about what ends up in the glass.
Chapter 04 · Spirits
Distilling, botanicals and ageing
Gin is neutral alcohol with juniper and other botanicals; jenever owes its full character to malt wine. Rum comes from sugar cane or molasses. Cognac and armagnac are distilled wine, calvados is distilled cider, tequila and mezcal come from agave, and vodka stays as neutral as possible. Torn between two bottles? In the shop we are happy to help.
Chapter 05 · Aperitifs and specialities
Liqueur, port and fortified wine
Drinks for before or after dinner. Liqueur is spirit with sugar and flavour: fruit, herbs, nuts, coffee or cream. Port, sherry and madeira are fortified wines; the earlier the fermentation stops, the sweeter the wine. Vermouth is wine infused with wormwood and herbs. Ruby port stays young and fruity, tawny matures longer in wood and moves towards nuts and caramel.
Chapter 06 · Alcohol-free drinks
Alcohol-free has a section of its own
With beer, fermentation is stopped early, or the alcohol is removed after brewing. With wine, the alcohol is also removed afterwards, often with some grape juice added back for body. Alcohol-free gin and aperitifs are built from botanicals in water, without distilling: rarely like the original, but herbal and dry. The shelf is divided into beer, wine, gin, liqueur, aperitif, bitters, mocktails and syrup.
Chapter 07 · Other
The glass plays its part
This is where the glassware is, along with everything else that goes with pouring. A tulip-shaped nosing glass concentrates the aroma and is therefore used for whisky, rum and cognac. A tumbler is wide and leaves room for ice. Beer glasses vary by style; wine glasses are roomier the more air the wine needs. Also: measures, carafes, coolers and gift packaging.
Whisky
3,986 items
Beer
2 soorten · 1.322 artikelen
Wine
1,082 items
Spirits
13 types · 1,627 items
Aperitifs and specialities
10 soorten · 1.266 artikelen
Alcohol-free drinks
3 types · 152 items
Other
2 types · 303 items
Wij verkopen geen alcohol aan personen onder de 18 jaar. NIX18
All thirty-two types
What is on the shelf
De grootste namen per soort. Een naam leidt naar dat merk, de kop van een kast naar de hele soort. Samen 2.066 merken en huizen, allemaal in de winkel aan de Brink.
The shop
Feel free to drop by
Everything on this page really is on the shelf on the Brink. Pick up a bottle, read the label, and if in doubt there is someone beside you who knows both bottles.
Inside
Shelves from floor to ceiling, and each type has its own row.
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Brink 2
7437 AM Bathmen
Tuesday to Friday from 09.00 to 18.00, Saturday from 09.00 to 17.00.
Closed on Monday and Sunday.
The whole shelf, for real. You can ask straight away, and whatever is not on the shelf, we are happy to look up for you.
Good to know
Tastings take place in the party cellar beneath the shop. Not nearby? Then the package goes by post. There is a dedicated page for the places around us.
Brink 2, Bathmen
The entire stock is in the shop, not in a warehouse. Feel free to drop by, or call 0570 541 278: we are happy to help.
Wij verkopen geen alcohol aan personen onder de 18 jaar. NIX18
- Tuesday to Friday 09.00 – 18.00
- Saturday 09.00 – 17.00
- Monday and Sunday closed