With Maltstock only a little more than 2 months away, it is time to reveal a our great line-up of Masterclasses! 

And what a line-up we have this year. Wow! There will be 10 different masterclasses for you to choose from!

Five of them are Maltstock virgins, so plenty of new interesting stuff! Then again, every Maltstock masterclass will be interesting and entertaining. So there is lots of carefull and wise choosing to be done!

And to top it all of, everybody will get to attend the campfire tasting with Mark and Cameron from Cadenhead’s. And there is a Quiz winners Masterclass by Hans Offringa.

Oh, and we’ll also have some speed tastings! More on that later.

Remember, all Maltstock masterclasses are free! There’s no extra charge, how relaxed is that?

Maltstock 2017 Masterclasses

These Masterclasses will be bookable from tomorrow. All ticketholders will receive an E-mail with the link to the preferences form.

Friday

• Inverhouse Lukasz – 16.45 – 17.45 – Chapel
• Loch Lommond group – Donald – 18.00 – 19.00 – Breakfast room
• Macallan – Sietse – 19.45 – 20.45 – Chapel

Saturday

• Yumi & Tatsuya – 12.00 – 13.00 – Chapel
• Creative Whisky Company – David 13.15 – 14.15 – Breakfast room
• Single Cask Nation – Joshua – 14.30 – 15.30 – Chapel
• Adelphi – Lucy – 15.45 – 16.45 – Breakfast room
• Speciality Drinks – Mariella – 17.00 – 18.00 – Chapel
• Ian Macleod – Kenny MacDonald – 18.45 – 19.45 – Breakfast room
• Gordon MacPhail – Steven Cameron – 19.30 – 20.30 – Chapel

Good luck choosing! See you in September!

Annette, Bob, Klaas, Marco, Stan and Teun

Tickets

If you haven’t bought your maltstock ticket yet, click and the link and get relaxed.

Maltstock tickets are all inclusive. All your food, beverages and all of our program is included in our entry fee.* You do, however, get to choose if you want to stay with us, and most of our guests do, which makes Maltstock an unique social event! If you want to camp outside or stay in a hotel nearby you are welcome to do so at your own expense. Maltstock tickets are for the whole weekend. We do not sell day or session tickets. Tickets are available at our online shop: www.maltstock.com/shop

*There can be additional costs involved if you want to taste exclusive or rare whisky at the stands of our private collectors, importers and shop keepers.

Hi folks. We are live with our 75th auction!

With an unprecedented 4000+ lots, and some real superstars, there is without doubt something here for everyone.

Enjoy – and remember: Don’t Lose Your Bottle!

Friday, June 30th, 5-7PM

Single Malt Tasting: Deanston, Bunnhabhain, Ledaig, Tobermory

Join us for a tasting of Deanston, Bunnhabhain, Ledaig, & Tobermory whiskies, presented by Distell! We’ll be sampling some rare drams as well as new and best selling releases from both distilleries. Distillery representatives and whisky experts will be present to answer all your whisky questions. Pour list will be revealed as the event approaches – be sure to follow The Whisky Shop on facebook to stay up to date!

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With an incredible selection of whiskies and other fine spirits there is certainly something for everyone – whether you are looking to collect, invest, enjoy!

Speyside Food and Drinks Festival Returns with a Larger Serving

Following the soaraway success of a festival launched last year to celebrate one of Scotland’s most fruitful food and drink regions, Spirt of Speyside: Distilled is to return – with an even greater range of home-grown flavours.

World leading drinks brands will join small artisan producers for the weekend festival at Elgin Town Hall on September 1 and 2 in a showcase of Speyside’s finest whisky, gin, beer and food. Classic drams will be served up alongside contemporary cocktails with speciality coffee to try alongside grown-up fudge.

This year’s event has been extended to cover two floors of the venue with even more opportunities to sample food and drink and meet the producers passionate about Speyside and its produce.

It’s not just about the tastes that makes the Speyside region  – home to more than half of Scotland’s malt whisky distilleries – renowned across the world for its food and drink. Distilled gives opportunities to experience and learn more about the flavours, through a range of tutorials or ‘masterclasses’ staged by experts.

Tickets for Distilled go on sale on at 9am on Friday, June 16 and with limited places available, food and drink lovers are urged to get in quick to ensure they don’t miss out.

Distilled is delivered by the same team behind the world-famous Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival and the inaugural mini-festival went down a treat with audiences last year.

Festival manager Pery Zakeri says, “Distilled is a melting pot of fantastic flavours and wonderful personalities sharing their enthusiasm for fine food and drink. It offers the chance to enjoy so many different tastes, as well as broadening knowledge of food and drink through our menu of masterclasses.

“We were delighted with the feedback from our inaugural event last year, which introduced a much younger audience to Speyside’s food and drink offering, and we are building on that with this year’s offering.

“We are proud to be playing a lead role in championing the region’s booming food and drink industry by bringing producers and the public together under one roof in celebration of the Speyside larder.”

Distilled drew gastronomes from all over Scotland as well as  visitors from overseas who wanted to be part of first festival of this kind to be held in Speyside. The big global players of the drinks industry stood shoulder to shoulder with small, up-and-coming producers in a mix that went down well with audiences.

Masterclasses ranged from the chance to sample rare and cask strength drams, to cocktail making and food pairing. A range of masterclasses are being offered again this year, costing an additional £15 per person, with full details of the range and times to be announced on the event website.

This celebration of Speyside’s food and drink features four different sessions and these take place from 1-5pm and 6-10pm each day. Tickets are priced at £20 which includes entry, six vouchers for tasting samples of gin, whisky or beer, a lanyard and a Glencairn crystal nosing and tasting glass.

All whisky, gin, beer and foods on offer will have a Speyside provenance and there will be the chance to purchase products from stand holders. There will also be festival merchandise available to buy.

For more information and to book tickets  visit www.distilled.scot

Distilled is active on social media at www.facebook.com/distilledscot on Twitter and Instagram @distilledscot.  Follow the festival at #distilled17

Pictures – Distilled, a delicious mix of Speyside’s finest food and drinks, returns to Elgin Town Hall on September 1 and 2.

Poland’s first whisky festival, which premiered in August 2014 in Jastrzebia Gora, founded and organised by Polish whisky bar Dom Whisky. 

Our whisky festival is the only Polish event that gathers the greatest personalities of the whisky world, whisky enthusiasts and people just starting their whisky adventure all in one place.  

We’re not about imposing rules, but showing people how to extract the most from the world of whisky. Guided by the motto ‘whisky is like a friendship, the older, the better’, we believe that together we create a unique atmosphere at the festival, and our relationship will mature over the years like the precious ‘water of life’.  

The fourth edition of the festival will offer:

– More than 600 whiskies to taste at very attractive prices,

– Masterclasses conducted by the greatest personalities in the world of whisky

– Whisky bottles available at very attractive prices

– Presentations, tastings, workshops and live music. 

The first show brought together 1,500 guests, while the second event grew to 4,000 guests. The third gathered more than 6,500 people. This year, we are looking forward to Your visit.

In the last few years, Milroy’s has seen the light and has fallen in love with great quality American whiskey. We are offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire the unicorn bottle that is the Michter’s Celebration of the Cask whiskey. Decades of expertise, love and dedication have contributed to this; the rarest Bourbon we can get our hands on…

Due to its rarity and price we would like to offer the chance to buy (unlimited) tickets for raffle so that some extremely lucky person can walk away with this beautiful spirit at a fraction of the cost. 180 Tickets will be available.

Tickets ONLY £25

The bottle is valued at £4500, being 1 of 4 bottles that exist in the UK. This is not a raffle to miss.

Comprised of Kentucky Straight Bourbon and Kentucky Straight Rye taken from the most extraordinary barrels in Michter’s stocks, the 2016 Release of Michter’s Celebration Sour Mash is a unique blend of first-use barrel whiskeys aged anywhere from over one decade to over 30 years old. The bottle only hits the shores once every few years, so buy your tickets whilst you can!

As if this wasn’t enough, 4 runners up will walk away with another bottle from the Michter’s Range. A bottle worth more than twice the ticket. WARNING: TICKETS WILL NOT LAST LONG Raffle to be drawn once tickets are reserved. Good luck, we are all counting on you.

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JUNE AUCTION NOW LIVE (ends Sunday 25^th June)

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With an incredible selection of whiskies and other fine spirits there is certainly something for everyone – whether you are looking to collect, invest, enjoy!