What a Blast! Scorpions St Kilian Special
- Ernie - Ernst Scheiner
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What a Blast!
Scorpions St Kilian Special Whisky Show will go live
“When the Smoke is going…” to surprise you
by Ernie Scheiner
The renowned Hard Rock Band SCORPIONS and St. Kilian Distillers will celebrate sixty years of band’s rocking history along with an outstanding tasting.
The show will be broadcasted live from Hannover, the home of the world famous hard rock icons!
“We'll toast with eight top-class samples,
including four new St Kilian releases
and two highly exclusive band limited editions,”
Master Blender Mario Rudolf is very delighted to announce,
“…together with Scorpion band members
we selected rare fine German white wine barriques
and distinctive tequila casks to celebrate their special jubilee.
Join in with band leader, founder and guitarist Rudolf Schenker and listen to his exciting anecdotes which will rock you like a hurricane by sampling special drams.
"They have been created with the utmost dedication
by the team of St. Kilian,"
Whisky Maker Mario is so proud of.
Scorpions‘ Tasting Line-up
· New: Scorpions Rock Believer – Unpeated – Single Malt Whisky
· New: Scorpions 60 Years of Rock – Smoky – Single Malt Whisky
· New: Single Cask ex Sherry Oloroso – Ultra Heavily Peated – Single Malt Whisky
· New: Kiliani Edition HEDAN – Unpeated – Single Malt Whisky
· Signature Edition FOURTEEN – Unpeated – Single Malt Whisky
· Signature Edition FIFTEEN – Peated – Single Malt Whisky
· St. Kilian PEATED – Rich & Smoky – Single Malt Whisky
· St. Kilian Berry – Forest Fruit Liqueur
Are you ready to rock this epic evening with Rudolf Schenker and St. Kilian whisky experts Mario Rudolf and Brand Ambassador Christoph Albietz?
Whisky Passion at its best.
Get your private tasting set for an evening full of whisky talk and smashing insights into sixty years of hard rock music. “Let it rock, and let it dram!”
Mind the date: Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at 7 p.m. live on youtube and afterwards. The show will be held in German.
You may preorder your eight sample tasting set at www.stkiliandistillers.com
“Shipping is only within Germany,” they say at St Kilian Distillery.
Für die Hard Rock Fans werden die Scorpions in ihrer Heimatstadt am 5. Juli 2025 ein Jubiläumskonzert geben. Es ist ihr erstes Stadionskonzert in Hannover.
What is so special about the St Kilian Shows?
Accompanying sample packages allow parallel tasting and assessment of the whiskies and liqueurs.
The barley varieties, malt recipes , fermentation processes and distillation methods, barrel management and maturation are explained in detail. Image information and illustrative films allow guests to visually participate in the production processes being discussed. They are therefore understandable and comprehensible for everyone.
The moderators' language is clear and understandable, allowing the content to be absorbed without technocratic gibberish.
Accompanying commentary allows viewers to ask questions and thus participate in the presentations.
Educational and easily understandable contributions from the scientific and chemical fields explain the phenomena of whisky production even to laypeople. These contribute to a better understanding of whiskies and liqueurs.
From a technical point of view, the web shows are staged visually and acoustically in a perfectly professional manner .
If you are unable to watch the broadcasts, you can watch them free of charge on YouTube .
St. Kilian Story. The Beginnings
A whisky friendship between Rüdenau founder and sole owner Andreas Thümmler and the Irishman David F. Hynes made a project possible in 2012 that has made all the dreams that were imagined at the time come true. Thümmler from Rüdenau, Lower Franconia, had been thinking about a distillery for a long time.
As chance would have it, he got to know and appreciate the then Director of Production of the Cooley Group, Hynes, in Kilbeggan, the oldest Irish distillery still in production today.
In short , the result of their friendship was integrated into a distillery that is exceptional in Germany, with a unique set from Scotland: Mash Tun, wooden fermentation vats and two decorative copper Swan Neck Pot Stills from the renowned coppersmiths Forsyths .
Scottish, Irish and German distilling techniques combined to create a state-of-the-art distillery that turned the small town near the romantic market town of Miltenberg into a mecca of the German whisky world.
A real stroke of luck was the recruitment of Mario Rudolf, a graduate maltster and brewer from the Technical University of Munich, who comes from a nearby town of Amorbach. Since 2015, Rudolf has been contributing his competence, creativity and brewing know-how to the St. Kilian team in the distillation of whiskies that have attracted national and international attention. Gold medals pave their path. Commendations such as Distillery of the Year or Distiller of the Year 2024 adorn the walls.
About the author
Ernie - Ernst J. Scheiner is the editor of The Gateway to Distilleries www.whisky-distilleries.net He has photographically documented over 150 distilleries from the inside and described the whisky production in detail. Since studying at the University of Edinburgh, he has been involved with whisky and published in specialist magazines,
such as The Irland Journal, Kleinbrennerei, Whisky Passion, and The Highland Herald . Features and stories have appeared in the blogs like whiskyexperts, whiskyfanblog, and whiskyintelligence . As head of the Ingelheim Adult Education Center, and now as a Whisk(e)y Ambassador, he conducts distillation seminars, organized study trips, and whisky culture tours to the sources of whisky.
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