Jolly Toper’s whisky tastings normally take place on Thursday nights from 7:30pm until approximately 10pm at The Kilderkin, 65/67 Canongate, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, (they do a mean pizza). For more details on the tastings themselves please click here

P/O/U/R/S = Peaty, Old, Unusual, Rare and Sherry cask matured. Recently many people have requested the exact nature of the line up at the ‘pours’ tastings remain secret so a proper ‘blind’ tasting can be held. However I understand some attendees would be more comfortable knowing which drams were to be tasted before committing to attending. If you don’t want to know the confirmed line up contact us before checking the details listed below.

* = £3 discount for first timers and members. Membership costs £10 for 13 months.

Future dates:

10th Anniversary of Canongate Tastings tasting  24.04.14 £28/25*   ***SOLD OUT *** but no waiting list started yet…

These five drams mean that in ten years we have tried whisky from every distillery in Scotland to have bottled their whisky since Maltmill closed in the 1950s (oops! except Kininvie)

Balmenach-Glenlivet Scotch Malt Whisky Society fresh Bourbon barrel cask strength

Glendullan-Glenlivet bottled exclusively for McBains of Dufftown by Gordon & MacPhail

Royal Lochnagar 17yo 1996 – 03/14 rum cask 606 bottles 57.4% Cadenheads

Dufftown-Glenlivet 34yo 1979 – 03/14 sherry cask 48.0% Cadenheads

Scapa 20yo 1983 – 2013 58.6%

Recent Cadenheads Bottlings 1.5.14 £TBC*

Dalmore 37yo cask strength

Bladnoch 23yo cask strength

Bowmore 13yo 46%

Benriach 18y 46%

something from a non Bourbon cask

8.5.14 Final (?) Marie Curie tasting £20 – 100% of ticket price goes to Marie Curie

Glencraig 22yo cask strength single cask Cadenheads

Glendronach 14yo single Oloroso butt cask strength

3 more drams perhaps including single Islay malt (Bowmore?) 21yo 46% The Wine Society, Ledaig 42% and one more-

feel free to donate another bottle and/or raffle/auction prizes

P/O/U/R/S 15.5.14 £TBC*

THE BEST CADENHEADS HAS No. 3, WEDNESDAY  21.05.14 £TBC but about £50

Those whisky daft Danes are back with the usual request – pour the 5 best drams Cadenheads currently have – hang the price.

Glenfiddich 1972 41yo cask strength £450 retail, Macduff 24yo single sherry cask cask strength, Longrow sherry cask 10yo cask strength then possibly Auchentoshan 21yo maybe Ben Nevis 17yo or Glen Lossie 20yo Bourbon hogshead, but we’ll wait and see what the next couple of bottling program offers…

P/O/U/R/S 29.5.14 £TBC*

P/O/U/R/S 12.6.14 £TBC*

P/O/U/R/S 26.6.14 £TBC*

P/O/U/R/S 10.7.14 £TBC*

P/O/U/R/S 24.7.14 £TBC*

Coming in August

– On a Saturday evening our second tasting on a canal barge, new route from Linlithgow, featuring 5 closed distilleries which were located alongside a canal: Glen Mhor, Littlemill, Port Dundas, Rosebank and St. Magdalene. Tickets circa £35.

– our initial walking tour of Edinburgh -visit sites of interest to whisky enthusiasts and try 5 drams connected to the capital and learn of the role ‘Auld Reekie’ played in Scottish whisky’s rise to prominence. Drams include Caledonian, North British, a 1970s bottled Queen Anne, Glen Kinchie and one other.

Future themed tastings: a vertical Glendronach tasting and Canadian whiskies.