This week's WhiskyCast is a couple of days late because of travel issues, but is available now featuring highlights from this weekend's Victoria Whisky Festival. whiskycast.com/a-weekend-to...

Time for the Distillers’ Dinner to wrap up the 2026 Victoria Whisky Festival! #vwf2026

Wrapping up the afternoon of master classes at the Victoria Whisky Festival with a Johnnie Walker blending exercise… #vwf2026

Is 11am too early for whisky? Not when you’re at the Victoria Whisky Festival and the masterclasses are just beginning! #vwf2026

Time for the first master class of the Victoria Whisky Festival with Ichiro Akuto’s malt whiskies from Japan!

Tasting the Sons of Vancouver “a morning smoke and jammy toast” Canadian whisky right now. Lots of marmalade, apricots, and citrus peel in this one…

Picked a peated Waterford Irish single malt for my birthday dram…good choice on a chilly night!

This week on WhiskyCast, we'll talk with maverick distiller Chip Tate. He's back in the whiskey business with three new Ampersand Spirits bottlings that balance unique combinations of flavors...and he'll explain on this week's WhiskyCast In-Depth. whiskycast.com/chip-tate-ba...

Tonight’s #saturdaynightsip Is the J.P. Wiser’s 23-year-old cask-strength Canadian whisky…full of fruity character and spices. #myCanadianpour #CDNWhiskyWeek

Tonight’s college football dram is a vintage Jimmy Red Bourbon from High Wire Distilling in Charleston, South Carolina. Figured it was an appropriate choice for an Indiana alum…Go Big Red!

Tonight’s #hockeydram is the new Ampersand Opimus from master whisky maker Chip Tate…it’s a 15-year-old Kentucky Bourbon finished in Tokaji wine casks. Chip will be my guest on this weekend’s WhiskyCast!

This week on WhiskyCast, we'll preview the upcoming #CanadianWhiskyWeek with co-founders Reece Sims and Andrea Fujarczuk. We'll also have the latest on the Uncle Nearest receivership... whiskycast.com/celebrating-...

My first #hockeydram of 2026 is the Four Roses Small Batch Bourbon…classic notes of caramel candy, dried fruits, and vanilla.

Just finished tasting the "Menthol & Evergreen" Canadian rye whisky from Sons of Vancouver Distillery...if you haven't tried Canada's craft whiskies lately, you're missing something!

Continuing the 1964 single grain trend with a 50-year-old Invergordon single malt from Douglas Laing & Co.

Called it! 38-3!

Alabama, prepare to meet your fate! #rosebowl #GoHoosiers

Not sure yet whether it will be my #lastdram of 2025, but I’m sipping a 50-year-old Glen Grant cask sample given to me in 2015 by the legendary distillery manager Dennis Malcolm.

Starting NYE off with a vintage Karuizawa 1984 single cask from Speciality Drinks…going through my collection of “Mark Only” marked samples from the early years of WhiskyCast!

We've produced a special year-end episode looking back at some of the top whisky stories of 2025 with some analysis of the trends facing the whisky industry. I'll offer some predictions for 2026 too. Happy New Year, gang! whiskycast.com/the-whisky-i...

Tasting a whopper of a whiskey tonight! The 2025 Garrison Bros. Cowboy Bourbon comes at 73.2% ABV. Lots of black pepper and toasted marshmallows…

Tasting Japanese whiskies tonight...the Fuji Single Malt and Nikka from the Barrel Extra Marriage...

Time for our annual year-end tradition...what will be your #lastdram of 2025 and your #firstdram of 2026? Share your whiskies with us, and you just might get a shout-out on this weekend's WhiskyCast!

This week on WhiskyCast, we'll meet Royal Barkla, the robotic dog sniffing whiskies in a Dewar's warehouse near Glasgow! whiskycast.com/meet-royal-b...

Tonight’s #saturdaynightsip is the Loch Lomond 18 Years Old. Surprisingly smoky!

Merry Christmas, gang! Don't forget to leave some whisky out for Santa tonight! #santapreferswhisky

Tonight’s #hockeydram is a vintage Jim Beam Urban Stillhouse Select from the old Beam Urban Stillhouse microdistillery in downtown Louisville…

Tonight’s #hockeydram is The Macklowe Kentucky Straight Bourbon. Full of black pepper and dried fruits…excellent!

This week on WhiskyCast, we'll look at the trend toward grain to glass whiskies with leaders of the Estate Whiskey Alliance, and we'll have the details on the Jim Beam Distillery closing for 2026... whiskycast.com/from-grain-t...

The stills at the Jim Beam Distillery in Clermont, Kentucky will be silent for all of 2026. as the distillery will be shut down for the entire year. We'll have the details on this weekend's WhiskyCast. whiskycast.com/beam-to-shut...

Tonight’s #hockeydram Is a vintage Signatory bottling of a 1989 Caol Ila at 7 years old. Lovely peatiness on the nose!

Tonight’s #hockeydram Is a rarity…one of the Rittenhouse Very Rare single barrel ryes distilled in 1984 at Heaven Hill and bottled in 2009…it was featured in a VinePair story today… vinepair.com/articles/ori...

This week on WhiskyCast, we'll remember longtime Glenlivet master distiller Jim Cryle, who passed away last week. We'll also have tasting notes for the new Bruichladdich Rye, Sazerac Rye Full Proof, and Booker's The Reserves 2025 Edition. whiskycast.com/remembering-...

Tonight’s #saturdaynightsip is the new Sazerac Rye Full Proof at 62.5% ABV. Full of great rye spices!

Sorry to hear of the passing of former Glenlivet master distiller Jim Cryle this week...He was master distiller from 1991 to 2006, when I interviewed him at the first Whisky Live Toronto. Here's a link to that episode... whiskycast.com/whiskycast-e...

Tonight’s third period #hockeydram is the classic Highland Park Odin (my cork broke on the Thor edition)…

Tonight’s second period #hockeydram is a vintage 2001 bottling of Knob Creek bourbon!

Tonight’s #hockeydram is the new Bruichladdich Rye. 7 years old and matured in 100% American Oak.

This week on WhiskyCast, we'll remember the bard of Scotch Whisky, Robin Laing, who died this weekend at the age of 72. whiskycast.com/american-sin...

Just got word that the Bard of Scotch Whisky, Robin Laing, has passed away at the age of 72. Raising a glass in his memory today, and here's a link to his July 2020 appearance on WhiskyCast Live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIi9...

The #hockeydram is back, and tonight it’s the Glendalough Double Barrel! #whiskycastsponsor

Happy Repeal Day! On this date 92 years ago, Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment and end Prohibition!

At an Old Fitzgerald event tonight in NYC. The bottle on the right dates back to 1934!

This week on WhiskyCast, we'll talk with Mitch Bechard, longtime whisky brand ambassador and author of the new "Not Another F*ucking Whisky Book." whiskycast.com/not-your-typ...

Tonight’s #saturdaynightsip is the new Willett Family Reserve Small Batch 4 Year Bourbon!

This week on WhiskyCast, we're at the New Brunswick Spirits Festival for a look at how Canada's American whisky boycott is affecting whisky events and whisky lovers alike... whiskycast.com/a-bourbon-fr...

The menu for tonight’s World Whiskies Dinner at #nbspiritsfestival sponsored by Suntory Global Spirits! #whiskycastsponsor

The whiskies I presented during my Closed Distilleries class at #nbspiritsfestival, including a 1965 St. Magdalene from Gordon and MacPhail.

Time to start the final day of the @nbspiritsfestival with the Collectors Class. Nine different whiskies from the collections of festival attendees, and something you won’t see at many whisky festivals. I’m presenting a Compass Box Hedonism Quindecimus!

They were pouring the Yamazaki 18 YO tonight during the VIP hour at the #nbspiritsfestival!