Just across the Brooklyn Bridge in a former Navy Yard is a small craft distillery called King’s County, the first in NYC since prohibition. We visited in 2018, so given its history has now doubled since then, i’m sure some things have changed, but i’m sure it’s still worth a visit. The founders were Kentucky born, but moved NYC and began hobby distilling, going legit … Continue reading King’s County Distillery, Brooklyn, NYC
A former member visited the Spring Mill Distillery back in early 2020, very early on in its history before they’d even released a fully aged whisky, and in 2024, John Sleeman and his sons Cooper and Quinn invited a busload of whisky lovers to the distillery for a tour, tasting and dinner. Having family in the Guelph area, and an uncle-in-law that actually did some … Continue reading Spring Mill Distillery – Dinner with the Sleemans
Burwood Distillery in Calgary is a little different, making honey-based “whisky” as the founders have a passion for honey and beekeeping.. Founded by Croatian brothers, they’re in a historical building which also houses the Vaycay brewery and an on-site restaurant. They also host classes where attendees can learn distillation basics on little alembic stills! Our tour was short, and the tasting was just a small … Continue reading Burwood Distillery, Calgary, AB
Portugal is known for its hospitable people, amazing seafood and gorgeous tiled buildings – not known for whisky, though Jay at Venakki is trying to change that. We visited the country in 2023 when our son was about 8 months old and as expected, absolutely fell in love with the culture and food. When I messaged Jay beforehand to see if we could visit the … Continue reading Venakki Distillery, Alpiarça, Portugal
Bedford Park is a Toronto-based independent bottler who we’ve used for our last two custom bottlings . We’ve long said we needed to do a tasting with them, and in April it finally happened. Here was the lineup: The artwork on the latter 4 you can see are part of a theme of Chess pieces, stay tuned for new releases on their website for the … Continue reading Bedford Park IB tasting – April 2026
West coast, best coast. I love the Maritimes, don’t get me wrong, but BC hits differently, and Vancouver Island may be my favourite place in Canada. I’ve been a few times, and one time back in 2019, I managed to convince my wife and some friends to drive up to Campbell River to visit Shelter Point Distillery. Why am I posting this now instead of … Continue reading Shelter Point Distillery – Vancouver Island, BC
Driving through Montreal in the spring is a frustrating experience – there’s construction happening on every other street, the traffic is backed up as you wait for the same stoplight for 3 cycles, and a single accident on the highways will have you sitting in stop and go for a very long time. But it’s incredible just how quickly all of that changes as soon … Continue reading Distillery Spotlight: Côte des Saints Distillery, Mirabel, QC
When the weather outside dips to -20C most peoples thoughts turn to hibernation. On a particularly cold Super Bowl Sunday members of the Toronto Whisky Society decided to brave the cold and warm up on a whisky world tour. Six whiskies from different points on the globe were concealed. Teaser descriptions were given and members were encouraged to try to guess the country of origin, … Continue reading Mystery Malt World Tour – Feb 2026
As always, we finished off the year with our AGM and heels party! We had about 30 members come out, bring bottles with ~1/3 left, covered off a little business including exec elections for the next few years, and then sampled dozens of great drams together! At the end, we raffle off the leftovers for folks to take home! Sadly we didn’t get a good … Continue reading AGM & Heels Party 2025
We’ve worked with a ton of brands over the years, but Diageo was a tough nut to crack as we couldn’t get a consistent contact to work with. Diageo distilleries showed up frequently in our line-ups as independently bottled expressions, but never OBs. We picked up a bunch of LEs from a local collector and decided we’d just run an event on our own without … Continue reading Diageo LE Mega-lineup
