Friday, August 24th, 5-7 PM:

Aberlour Scotch & 

Powers Irish Whiskey

Award-winning scotch and whiskey pour at this expert presented tasting of Irish and Speyside drams. Aberlour Scotch & Powers Irish Whiskey will be poured, with more new and rare whiskies to be revealed.

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Saturday,  August 18th, 2:30-5:30PM: 

Single Malt Scotch Tasting: Mossburn Distillery

Expand your whisky knowledge at our expert-presented traditional whisky tasting, featuring Scotland’s Mossburn distillery.

The Mossburn signature line is a masterfully blended whisky, double-matured in three different cask woods to create rich and smokey flavors. In addition to masterful blenders Mossburn is also a discerning bottler of rare and notable whiskies, including limited-edition releases from select Highland and Speyside distilleries like Blair Athol, Ardmore and Craigellachie to name a few

We’ll be pouring a variety of new and rare Mossburn releases, with whisky experts present for all your whisky questions.

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Old Rip Van Winkle 25 Year Old

Our friends at The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society are raffling off one of the rarest Bourbons available, a bottle of Old Rip Van Winkle 25 Year Old. We wanted to make sure our Bourbon-loving audience is well aware of the opportunity. Don’t delay on this amazing opportunity to support a great cause. Check out the details below and click the link to purchase raffle tickets directly from The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Cheers,
-The Party Source Liquor Department

This is an extra special, one-time bottling of Van Winkle bourbon. Eleven barrels were hand selected for this very small batch bourbon, producing only 710 bottles of rare and even harder to find Van Winkle whiskeys.

The barrels were distilled in the spring and fall of 1989 and stored on the lower levels of a metal clad warehouse built in 1935 at the Van Winkle family distillery in Shively, Ky. In 2002 the barrels were moved to Buffalo Trace Distillery, where they continued to age for another 12 years on the lower floors in Buffalo Trace’s brick warehouses. The lower floor placement helped preserve the sweet, mellow notes of the world-famous wheated bourbon recipe. In 2014 the Buffalo Trace team moved the barrels into stainless steel tanks to halt the aging process and preserve the rich flavor profile fans have come to expect from the Van Winkle line.

These extra special bottles deserve an extra special vessel, so each bottle is a handmade glass decanter from Glencairn Crystal Studio. The bottle information is engraved on each decanter, individually numbered, and hand finished with a silver stopper. A glass top for the decanter is also included.

Each decanter is packaged in a handmade wooden box crafted in North Carolina by James Broyhill II of Heritage Handcrafted. The lid is constructed using the oak staves from the 11 barrels that held this bourbon. The outside of the box bears a metal plaque with the Old Rip Van Winkle logo and states “asleep 25 years in the wood.” Inside each box, along with the decanter and glass top, is a bourbon certificate of authenticity, numbered and signed by Julian Van Winkle, grandson of founder Julian P. “Pappy” Van Winkle, Sr.

RAFFLE TICKET 

Only 500 Old Rip Van Winkle raffle tickets will be sold, at $100 per ticket. The winning ticket will be drawn on Friday, August 24th, 2018 at 2 pm at The Party Source. You do not need to be present to win.

*Bottle must be picked up instore at The Party Source

Old Rip Van WInkle 25 Year Raffle

OVER 300 WHISKIES ON TASTE IN THE CITY
15 SEPTEMBER 2018
– thestudio –

It’s just over a month till we descend on Birmingham’s city centre for another memorable whisky gathering, joined by over 50 brands and more than 300 whiskies on taste. Brace yourselves for our greatest whisky tasting experience yet!

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NEW TO THE SHOW

Each year Midlands Whisky Festival welcomes some of the most well-known brands and bottlers in the whisky industry, although you’re always guaranteed to find something new and exciting to taste!

STARWARD

World whiskies are always interesting finds, especially when they’re from the other side of the globe. Starward, known as the ‘modern Australian whisky’ mature their spirit in a variety of wine casks including red wine and fortified wine, which results in a single malt with serious character to boot. Be sure to come and check them out at the Birmingham show.

THE PEARLS OF SCOTLAND

Family-owned independent bottler Gordon & Company will be at the show showing bottlings from a number of distilleries such as Bunnahabhain, Cambus, Tobermory and this exceptional bottle of single cask Highland Park, which was aged for an impressive 25 years.

FROM VERMONT, USA

If you’re a fan of American whiskey then you’re in for a treat. WhistlePig will be making their MWF debut next month, taking you on a lip-smacking journey through their range of amazing rye whiskeys from WhistlePig farm in Vermont.

MEET THE MAKERS

Keith Cruickshank will be sharing his knowledge and experience on what it’s like being a distillery manager at Benromach, during a masterclass to celebrate their 20th anniversary!

Tasting Lineup
– Benromach 10 Year Old
– Benromach 15 Year Old
– Benromach Organic
– Benromach Triple Distilled
– Benromach 1998 20th Anniversary Bottling
– Benromach 1970 (Bottled 1980s) Connoisseurs Choice (Gordon & MacPhail)

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-OPENING TIMES –

Saturday 15th
12pm – 6pm
(5.40pm last pour)

Please arrive at the venue early to avoid potential queues

– VENUE –

thestudio venue
7 Cannon Street
Birmingham
B2 5EP

Click HERE for directions

Friday, August 17th, 5-7 PM: 

 Wyoming Whiskey 

Wyoming Whiskey are independent, family-owned whiskey makers with a world-class distillery in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming. The Big Horn Basin has everything needed to make great bourbon, and all ingredients are sourced locally – from non-GMO grain to water from the Madison limestone aquifier. The consistency and uniqueness of these whiskey elements make for a better bourbon that stands apart from all others, and a true contender for best Whisky of the West. 

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Saturday, August 18th, 2:30-5:30 PM

Scotch Tasting: Mossburn

Expand your whisky knowledge at our expert-presented traditional whisky tasting, featuring Scotland’s Mossburn distillery. The Mossburn signature line is a masterfully blended whisky, double-matured in three different cask woods to create rich and smokey flavors. In addition to masterful blenders Mossburn is also a discerning bottler of rare and notable whiskies, including limited-edition releases from select Highland and Speyside distilleries like Blair Athol, Ardmore and Craigellachie to name a few.

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Friday, August 17, 5-7PM: 

Bourbon Tasting: Wyoming Whiskey

Wyoming Whiskey are independent, family-owned whiskey makers with a world-class distillery in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming. The Big Horn Basin has everything needed to make great bourbon, and all ingredients are sourced locally – from non-GMO grain to water from the Madison limestone aquifier. The consistency and uniqueness of these whiskey elements make for a better bourbon that stands apart from all others, and a true contender for best Whisky of the West.

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Saturday,  August 11th, 2:30-5:30PM: 

Islay Scotch, and Ol’ Major Bacon Bourbon

There’s something for everyone at this tasting. Presented by Branded Spirits, this everything-but-the-kitchen-sink tasting includes Glen Oak’s 17 yr old Islay scotch and Ol Major Bacon bourbon, made with real bacon!

Pourlist:

Glen Oak 17: 

Sourced from Bruichladdich Distillery, Glen Oak 17 is distilled from 100% Islay Barley, with a sea-salt tinged palate of dark chocolate, orange spice, and light peat on the finish. Only 125 cases of this rare vintage exist.

Ol Major Bacon Bourbon:

Made with real bacon, a mash bill of corn, rye, and barley, and no artificial ingredients, this unique bourbon is no flash-in-the-pan experimental bottling. Ol’ Major Bacon took Gold Medal at the SF World Spirits competition – perhaps the only bacon-flavored spirit to ever do so.

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While temperatures here in Maltstock country are tropical we are so looking forward to Maltstock! Not only because it’s cool and relaxed 😉 but mainly because we are looking forward to meeting old and new friends!

Want to be a part of our anniversary party? Hurry (relaxedly of course) because we are almost fully booked now.

See you in a couple of weeks!!

Annette, Bob, Klaas, Stan, Teun

Raffle grand prize

Win a relaxed whisky trip for two persons to three of the best whisky bars in Scotland! A must for every whisky lover: 2 nights Bed&Breakfast at the Highlander Inn, Craigellachie + 2 Nights Bed&Breakfast at Fiddlers, Loch Ness + 2 nights Bed&Breakfast in superior room at Dornoch Castle Hotel.

The Monkey Shoulder Midnight Cafe

Wanna have a relaxed beer or perhaps a soda after a day of tasting whisky? We’ve arranged for that together with Monkey Shoulder. Special Monkey Shoulder cocktails will be served!

On Friday and Saturday from (about) 00:00h – 03:00h our Midnight café will be opened. Of course there will be a midnight snack and of course it will be gezellig!

At no extra costs because this is also included with you Maltstock ticket.

Masterclass preference link

We have been sending all our guests the masterclass preference link. This is the link you need to let us know your masterclass preferences.

If you think “I didn’t get this mail”, or “I can’t find it anymore” and you have bought a Maltstock 2018 ticket. Please search your inbox and spam folder for this. If you really can’t find it, please send us an email: info@maltstock.com and we will send you the link.

But relax! You have till the 25th of August to let us know your preferences, if we didn’t receive your preferences by then, we will have to guess. Thank you!

A few weeks left to get your tickets.

Only a few weeks left to buy your Maltstock ticket. And there are only a couple of tickets left. Why wait? Get relaxed now and visit our ticketshop. Remember: you cannot buy tickets at the door!

Our crazy packed anniversary program can be found at www.maltstock.com, we have a whooping amount of 10 masterclasses for you to choose from this year.

HIGHLAND PARK VALKNUT 

The second release in Highland Park’s Viking Legend series. This nuanced Norse dram continues the distillery’s exploration of Orkney’s Viking heritage, invoking Odin himself with notes of warm mulling spice and lingering peat smoke.

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NEW MORTLACHS

The Beast of Dufftown’s recent incarnation as Diageo’s super-premium Speyside has been cast aside in favour of a new, more nuanced approach: pre-release tastings indicate a real return to form for a distillery which deserves to succeed. Billy’s got the scoop.

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Customer Review

TALISKER 10 YEAR OLD 

“One of my favourite whiskies ever… very rarely does a whisky actually invoke imagery in me, but this does it and is the only one I have tasted so far to do so. Makes me think of eating freshly caught fish cooked over a wood fire, sitting on a cliff watching the waves crash against the rocks. The only word I can use to describe this whisky is magical…” – Chris.

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WHISKY SHOW: OLD & RARE 

Old and rare whiskies are a constant point of interest and conversation, but how many of us actually get to taste that ancient Ardbeg or sip a dram of Port Ellen Queen’s Visit? Well, you could, thanks to The Whisky Show: Old & Rare – an opportunity to explore some truly delectable and seriously collectible spirits.

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