That is only a delicate, ALL CAPS AND IN BOLD reminder that in case you are curious about buying this yr’s KWM Whisky Calendar and profiting from our Early-Chook pricing choice, you solely have till WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER fifth, 2022 to take action.
In case you have already bought your KWM 2022 Whisky Calendar or usually are not at present then you’re free to sigh in aid and scroll additional down the web page and browse our upcoming digital and in-store whisky tastings.
Cheers,
Evan
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THE KWM 2022 WHISKY CALENDAR EARLY-BIRD OFFER
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EARLY BIRD PRICING OPTION ENDS ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER fifth, 2022!
The KWM Whisky Calendar, aka “25 Days of Dram High-quality Whisky”, is again for the ninth straight yr. As soon as once more the calendar could have a recent new look, which can be revealed in just a few weeks’ time. This yr’s calendar consists of 24 50ml premium whiskies, a customized brand Glencairn glass, and a 100ml Scotch Malt Whisky Society whisky for Christmas Day. You’ll be able to observe together with us on the KWM Weblog beginning December 1st or on one in every of our varied social media channels as we introduce and focus on every day’s whisky. And there may be extra…
As a result of they had been such an enormous hit the final two years, we are going to as soon as once more be internet hosting the Whisky Calendar Recap Tastings all through the month of December. Purchasers and recipients of the KWM 2022 Whisky Calendar will be capable to be part of us for any or the entire 5 digital tastings on December 5, 10, 15, 20 and after Christmas on the twenty eighth, at 7 PM MT. Every of them will cowl the 5 earlier day’s whiskies within the Calendar.
We all the time hold the precise whisky record a secret – there are too few surprises left on this life – however we can inform you this yr’s Calendar consists of 3 KWM unique casks, a few whiskies of their 20s, and greater than a dozen distilleries and producers by no means earlier than featured in any of our prior Whisky Calendars. We’re assured that we have now put collectively one other unbelievable Calendar this yr, and we all know you’ll like it!
Better of all, if you choose the pre-pay preorder choice, you’ll save $60! This feature was highly regarded final yr, and fully bought out 2020’s unique manufacturing in simply 2 weeks!
We anticipate the KWM 2022 Whisky Creation Calendars must be prepared for decide up in early November. That’s, as long as every little thing goes as deliberate, which, within the Put up-Covid Period, you may by no means be 100% positive of. However we’ve deliberate accordingly, and ordered early from all of our suppliers!
UPCOMING TASTINGS
Our Fall Tasting Schedule is coming quickly, however within the meantime, listed below are just a few occasions to entertain and delight you!
North & South Star Whisky with Iain Croucher
· Date: Friday, September 30
· Time: 7 PM
· Price: $30
· That is an in-person tasting!
Iain Croucher, the person behind North Star and South Star whiskies, in addition to the approaching new Dál Riata Distillery in Campbeltown, is coming to city for the primary time, so we’re rolling out a effective vary of malts. We’ll pattern 8 expressions of North & South Star whisky, together with the Blended Malt for Ukraine, a 13-year-old fairly sherried GlenAllachie, and a 26-year-old Tobermory. A steal for $30.
Friday, September 30 @ 7PM.
SMWS October 2022 Digital Outturn
· Date: Wednesday, October 5
· Time: 7 PM
· Price: $55
· It is a VIRTUAL TASTING!
Log in, pour your drams, and be part of us from house, the seashore, or the woods for the October 2022 Scotch Malt Whisky Society Canada Digital Outturn Tasting. The KWM crew can be your information as you pattern by an thrilling vary of seven new, never-before-sampled SMWS whiskies. Wednesday, October 5, 7 PM.
*Energetic SMWS Members will Save $10 on one set of samples for the tasting. For the $10 low cost, particular person SMWS members should register independently. The worth won’t present on-line while you submit however can be adjusted after we evaluation and course of the order.
Wednesday, October fifth @ 7 PM
SMWS October 2022 In-Particular person Outturn 6 PM
· Date: Thursday, October 6
· Time: 6 PM
· Price: $60
· That is an in-person tasting!
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Canada’s October Outturn tasting will function new, never-before-featured whiskies. The vary would be the similar because the digital tasting the evening earlier than however will even embrace nibbles from our associates at Peasant Cheese, and the comradery that may solely come from 20 SMWS Members in our tasting room. Please notice we won’t be holding again inventory of the Outturn bottles particularly to buy for this in-person tasting, although there’ll probably be bottles of most whiskies nonetheless obtainable.
Thursday, October 6 @ 6 PM.
Amrut Whisky with Ashok Chokalingam
· Date: Friday, October 7
· Time: 7 PM
· Price: $55
· That is an in-person tasting!
Our pal Ashok is returning to Calgary for the primary time in various years and we’re thrilled to have him in retailer for an in-person tasting. So much has modified since we final noticed Ashok, he’s now Amrut’s Distillery Supervisor. We are going to pattern 7 Amrut expressions, together with, if the celebs align, a particular deal with.
Friday, October seventh @ 7 PM
OLD first MALT version CASKs
· Date: Tuesday, October 11
· Time: 7 PM
· Price: $50
· Digital Tasting
Now that’s a mouthful, isn’t it? Excuse the cheek, however we really feel that is going to be an superior tasting! We’ve not too long ago obtained a curious new vary of Previous Malt Cask and First Version whiskies from our associates at Hunter Laing. The tasting will embrace 7 single cask whiskies from Ben Nevis, Glenburgie, Highland Park, Jura, Linkwood, Miltonduff, and Royal Lochnagar. All in all, we are going to dabble in 141 years of single malt Scotch whisky.
Tuesday, October eleventh @ 7 PM
KWM Casks Bruichladdich Cask Launch – In-Retailer Tasting
· Date: Thursday, October 13
· Time: 7 PM
· Price: $50
· That is an in-person tasting!
We’ve one way or the other managed to maintain a lid on the truth that we have now had a brand new KWM unique Bruichladdich cask quietly slumbering up at our warehouse for months. Because of our favorite Bogyman – “Provide Chain Points” – we have now obtained no fewer than a dozen single casks within the final 3 months; a typical yr’s price. One of many final of the dozen casks to reach, we made the choice to carry the Laddie again for a Fall launch to provide a few of our different casks an opportunity to shine. Along with being the primary shoppers to pattern our new Bruichladdich cask, tasting members will even have the chance to pattern our prior Bruichladdich cask and a choice of 5 different latest KWM single cask bottlings. If historical past is any information, this Bruichladdich cask received’t final lengthy. So the icing on the cake for many who attend our digital or in-person tasting is that they may have a possibility to buy a bottle every week earlier than some other shoppers!
Thursday, October thirteenth @ 7 PM
KWM Casks Bruichladdich Cask Launch – Digital Tasting
· Date: Friday, October 14
· Time: 7 PM
· Price: $40
· Digital Tasting
Similar as above, however Digital. From the consolation of your personal house!
Friday, October 14th @ 7 PM
Shelter Level Returns with Chris Learn
· Date: Tuesday, October 18
· Time: 7 PM
· Price: $20
· That is an in-person tasting!
Certainly one of our favorite Canadian Distilleries, Shelter Level, has been on a little bit of a hiatus from Alberta in latest months. Now they’re coming again, and in effective type too, with new whiskies, a brand new model ambassador, and a brand new importer. Model Ambassador Chris Learn can be our information as we pattern by 7 Shelter Level whiskies, together with the soon-to-be-released Evans Household Reserve, and Shelter Level 10 Yr.
Tuesday, October 18th @ 7 PM
Rye Not Rye? Digital Tasting
· Date: Tuesday, October 20
· Time: 7 PM
· Price: $40
· Digital Tasting
If all you recognize of Rye is Crown Royal, we’re sorry (largely as a result of we consider Rye Whisky ought to truly comprise…properly…rye; absurd, proper?). Rye is making a comeback and as a metropolis that’s house to among the finest Rye producers on the earth, we aren’t strangers to good old school (not the cocktail) near-100% Rye whiskies. Fortunately increasingly more persons are leaping on the rye prepare and the flavours are vastly totally different even when the mash payments are the identical. Canada has very loosey-goosey guidelines relating to what makes Canadian Rye Whisky, different nations have extra agency guidelines on how Rye Whisky may be made and we need to share these with you. Concord and Evan are proud to current a lineup of near-100% Rye-based whiskies which are positive to knock your boots off.
Tuesday, October twentieth @ 7 PM
Glenfarclas KWM thirtieth Anniversary Tasting with Deborah Stewart – 6 PM & 8 PM
· Date: Tuesday, October 25
· First Seating Time: 6 PM
· Second Seating Time: 8 PM
· Price: $40
· These are each in-person tastings!
Glenfarclas’s Deborah Stewart can be our particular visitor as we have a good time the launch of our Glenfarclas 1992 KWM thirtieth Anniversary Household Cask with an unbelievable vertical tasting. We are going to pattern the Glenfarclas 15, 21, 25, 30, and 40-year-olds, in addition to the KWM Cask Power 21 Yr and our new 1992 Household Cask. In all, 181 years of liquid historical past for simply $40!!!
Tuesday, October twenty fifth @ 6 PM andTuesday, October twenty fifth @ 8 PM
Kinda Uncommon & Previous Whiskies: 20 is the brand new 30
· Date: Wednesday, October 26
· Time: 7 PM
· Price: $150
· Digital Tasting
It’s best to know the drill by now: the massive man has recognized a spread of whiskies he needs to style, and the vary is unlikely to disappoint. This time round we have now a spread of 8 whiskies: 6 of their twenties and a couple of of their early thirties. We have now a trio of previous Edradours, a pair of Millstones distilled within the Nineties, a Gordon & MacPhail Miltonduff from 1989, and OB single casks of BenRiach (1997) and GlenDronach (1990). In complete, you’ll take pleasure in simply shy of 200 years price of single malt whisky!
Wednesday, October twenty sixth @ 7 PM
Lavatory v. Bodega: Peat Monsters & Sherry Bombs
· Date: Thursday, October 27
· Time: 7 PM
· Price: $80
· That is an in-person tasting!
Peat and sherry are unquestionably the massive weapons within the whisky world. Whereas these are arguably probably the most polarizing types of whisky on the market, they’re additionally far and away probably the most in demand. The theme for this tasting is elegantly easy: dark-sherried beauties meet daring smoky beasts. From the bodegas of Jerez to the peat banks of Scotland, we’ll work our method by a number of the most intense flavours on the spectrum. Although not a tasting for the faint of coronary heart, Curt has pulled collectively some particular bottles for this vary!
Thursday, October twenty seventh @ 7 PM
Boutique-y North-West Euro Specific w/ Dave Worthington
· Date: Saturday, October 29
· Time: 5 PM
· Price: $50
· Digital Tasting
Are you able to consider a greater solution to spend an early Saturday night in October than geeking out on whisky with Boutique-y Dave and the KWM crew? We have now chosen 8 whiskies for the tasting, launched as part of Boutique-y’s North-West Euro Specific. The vary highlights single malts, ryes, and a buckwheat spirit (that may’t legally be referred to as whisky) from North West European Distilleries. We’ll be sampling drams from Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, and Switzerland.
Saturday, October twenty ninth @ 5 PM
Glenfarclas Household Casks 2021 – The Nineties
· Date: Tuesday, November 1
· Time: 7 PM
· Price: $100
· Digital Tasting
On the one hand, this tasting was an important alternative for us to function our new Glenfarclas 1992 KWM thirtieth Anniversary Household Cask… Nevertheless it additionally has the additional benefit of permitting us to pattern a number of the wonderful Summer time 2021 Glenfarclas Household Casks we obtained within the Spring. There have been too many to suit into one tasting, so we broke them down into the 1990 and the 2000s. This tasting will function the next S21 vintages: 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, and 1998; in addition to our personal unique 1992 cask.
Tuesday, November 1st @ 7 PM
Elixir Distillers Single Casks w/ Celine Tetu
· Date: Friday, November 4
· Time: 7 PM
· Price: $50
· That is an in-person tasting!
Elixir Distillers has turn out to be one in every of our greatest companions lately, they usually hold feeding us some completely wonderful single casks. The newest batch was chosen within the Winter or Spring of 2021, however resulting from all of the challenges round logistics lately, they solely simply arrived within the late Spring! We did a model of this tasting in the summertime with Elixir Distiller’s Celine Tetu, and now she’s coming to city, so we’ll function the identical vary in-store. Friends will pattern 7 Single Malts of Scotland bottlings, with 6 of them being cask power, single cask whiskies. Individuals will attempt the 4 most up-to-date KWM casks: Ardmore 11 Yr, Glenburgie 22 Yr, Imperial 22 Yr, and Mannochmore 13 Yr, and three others: Ben Nevis 1997, Linkwood 11 Yr, and Reserve Casks Glencadam 10 Yr.
Friday, November 4th @ 7 PM
…By Any Different Identify: Secret Whiskies from Not So Secret Distilleries
· Date: Tuesday, November 8
· Time: 7 PM
· Price: $40
· Digital Tasting
“What’s in a reputation? That which we name a rose by some other identify would scent as candy.”
Just a little little bit of Romeo and Juliet for you, people. However what’s in a reputation? We sorta suppose that’s a subject for group dialogue. And a dialogue is nearly all the time extra gratifying over just a few drams (that is incontrovertible reality). There are just a few distilleries in Scotland which are very protecting of their model. There are others that merely produce a handful of in-house types below totally different names. In each instances, we frequently discover labels that make us second-guess our distillery information. For this occasion, we’ll be tasting just a few very well-known distilleries bottled below some very totally different names. We’ll inform some tales and possibly even speculate a bit in some instances. Be part of us for a night of sipping, sleuthing, and secret revealing. Curt was actually enthusiastic about this vary, and we will guarantee you it received’t disappoint.
Tuesday, November eighth @ 7 PM
Fall Single Malt Competition – Evening 1 & Evening 2
· Date 1: Tuesday, November 10
· Date 2: Tuesday, November 24
· Time: 7 PM to 9 PM
· Price: $75
· That is an in-person pageant tasting!
As we did within the Spring for our thirtieth Anniversary, we’re providing two more-or-less similar Fall Single Malt Festivals, two weeks aside, each for a reasonably smaller crowd than normal, to provide as lots of our whisky associates as potential an opportunity to attend. There can be as much as 100 whiskies to pattern, and the worth features a thirtieth Anniversary KWM brand glass. As all the time, our neighbour Peasant cheese can be lining your stomachs with scrumptious cheese, charcuterie, sausage rolls, and different treats! Each Festivals are restricted to 80 members and we’re asking folks to solely register for one date or the opposite, not each, out of respect for different prospects.
Thursday, November 10, 7 PM – 9 PM & Thursday, November 24, 7 PM – 9 PM.
Boutique-y Cool & Uncommon Whisky w/ Dave Worthington
· Date: Saturday, November 12
· Time: 5 PM
· Price: $70
· Digital Tasting
This can absolutely be probably the most enjoyable ranges we pattern with Boutique-y Dave. It consists of 4 not too long ago launch That Boutique-y Whisky Co. Blends at 22, 32, 42 and 52 years of age! The final one is an actual curiosity, as having fallen under 40% it isn’t legally whisky… however it will likely be attention-grabbing to attempt! To spherical out the lineup we’re including Ledaig 21 Yr, Allt-A-Bhaine 23 Yr, and a teaspooned presumably Glen Scotia 24 Yr. 216 years of liquid historical past, with one of many business’s most entertaining hosts!
Saturday, November twelfth @ 5 PM
Glenfarclas Household Casks 2021 – The 2000s
· Date: Tuesday, November 15
· Time: 7 PM
· Price: $65
· Digital Tasting
No, we received’t be sampling the KWM thirtieth Anniversary Household Cask on this session, however we nonetheless have an unbelievable lineup of Glenfarclas single casks. We held again a bottle every of a number of the highlights from the Summer time 2021 Glenfarclas Household Cask releases. On this session, we’ll pattern bottlings from 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
Tuesday, November fifteenth @ 7 PM
Kinship Assortment 2021 +1
· Date: Tuesday, December 6
· Time: 7 PM
· Price: $225
· Digital Tasting
Who doesn’t love previous Islay malts? We purchased a few units of the 2021 Kinship Assortment from Hunter Laing as a result of we knew we had been going to need to open one for a tasting. The set consists of:
Ardbeg 19 Yr, Bowmore 33 Yr, Bruichladdich 29 Yr, Bunnahabhain 31 Yr, Caol Ila 40 Yr, and Laphroaig 23 Yr. However that’s solely 6 whiskies, and we wish to have at the very least 7 at our tastings, so we’re tossing in a stunning sherried First Version Laphroaig 14 Yr to spherical out our vary. Be part of the KWM crew as we sip our method by 189 years of Islay glory!
Tuesday, December sixth @ 7 PM
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