Tag: whisky

Event Recap, Review

Toronto Whisky Society November 2016 tasting meet-up

The Toronto Whisky Society had another meetup this weekend, and had a number of fantastic bottles to sample from. We had 9 people out, including many of our contributors from here: Devoz, TOModera, Boyd86, Throzen, Xile_, DistillAsian, Kyle Butler, and Bryan Vanderkruk with special guest CharlesDobson from Alberta. We had a line-up of 9 bottles and sampled, dissected and discussed each one. The reviews will be … Continue reading Toronto Whisky Society November 2016 tasting meet-up

Unknown's avatarBryan Vanderkruk1 Comment
Distillery Spotlight, Review, Whisky Musing

Toronto Whisky Society visits the Toronto Distillery Co

A group of us from the Toronto Whisky Society have been getting together for meetups at scotch bars or at each other’s homes for drinking nights for a couple years now, and we recently visited the Toronto Distillery Co, the same distillery that recently did an AMA here on Reddit’s World Whisky Sub. Charles and J.R. have been very friendly and engaging with the community on … Continue reading Toronto Whisky Society visits the Toronto Distillery Co

Unknown's avatarBryan Vanderkruk4 Comments
Distillery Spotlight, Event Recap

Toronto Whisky Society member visits Dixon’s Distillery 1 year anniversary

Wasn’t even aware of Dixon’s Distilled Spirits till I saw a sign on the Hanlon in Guelph the other day, then when I checked out their website, I saw they were having a 1yr anniversary event that day and decided to check it out. Here are some pictures from their 1 year anniversary event! Jeremie is the head distiller and Miranda is the youngest female distiller in Canada for … Continue reading Toronto Whisky Society member visits Dixon’s Distillery 1 year anniversary

Unknown's avatarBryan Vanderkruk1 Comment
Review

Bryan’s Scotland Trip Part 5 – Duty Free

At the Edinburgh duty free for an evening flight. The whisky reps are out in full force pouring samples. took some very sparse, quick notes, didn’t comment on appearance for most because they all look like e150. I’d seen the Talisker Skye in bottle shops and was curious so I started with it, expecting a standard Talisker dram Talisker Skye – 45.8% ABV Nose: Salty. … Continue reading Bryan’s Scotland Trip Part 5 – Duty Free

Unknown's avatarBryan Vanderkruk2 Comments
Distillery Spotlight, Review

Bryan’s Scotland Trip Part 2 – Arran

I recently got back from a few weeks in Europe including a week in Scotland, and managed to visit Edinburgh, Glasgow, Arran and Islay. This post covers some drams consumed at the Arran Distillery, as well as some pictures from the island (the castle picture is the view from our B&B window!) Full disclosure, i came down with a bad cold the day we visited … Continue reading Bryan’s Scotland Trip Part 2 – Arran

Unknown's avatarBryan Vanderkruk3 Comments
Review

Bryan’s Scotland Trip Part 1 – Edinburgh

I recently got back from a few weeks in Europe including a week in Scotland, and managed to visit Edinburgh, Glasgow, Arran and Islay. The trip was amazing and included visits to the Royal Mile, Cadenhead’s, a bunch of bottle shops, climbing Arthur’s Seat, an amazing G&T at the Sheep’s Heid Inn and a ton of other stuff. This post covers some samples/drams consumed in … Continue reading Bryan’s Scotland Trip Part 1 – Edinburgh

Unknown's avatarBryan Vanderkruk2 Comments
Event Recap, Review

Toronto Whisky Society High Proof Bourbon tasting night

The Toronto Whisky Society got together for a high proof bourbon tasting that’s been in the works for a few months. We finally found a day that worked for everyone and trekked up to Devoz‘s house for the event. right up front, big thank you to texacer of the Whisky network on Reddit for helping us pick out the bourbons to try. all of us sent lists of … Continue reading Toronto Whisky Society High Proof Bourbon tasting night

Unknown's avatarBryan Vanderkruk3 Comments
Event Recap, Review

Toronto Whisky Society meetup at Devoz’s house, Feb 2016

Toronto Whisky Society got together at Devoz’s house for a few drams…though the word ‘few’ is kind of a lie. boyd86 kinohead devoz and I were drinking all night and tomodera dropped by for some swaps too. here are the drams I tasted and some comments on each, verbatim from my hand-written notes that night, so you can probably tell which ones were later in the evening! Glenmorangie … Continue reading Toronto Whisky Society meetup at Devoz’s house, Feb 2016

Unknown's avatarBryan Vanderkruk3 Comments
Event Recap, Review

Toronto Whisky Society Meetup at Bryan’s Condo, 2015

So a while ago I promised to have a bunch of the Toronto Whisky Society guys down for a few drams and finally followed through on that promise. This was our first meet-up as a group aside from when we hit up Feather’s Pub a few months back. We had 6 guys out including me and a buddy of mine from Hamilton, jolarbear devoz kinohead and tomodera. … Continue reading Toronto Whisky Society Meetup at Bryan’s Condo, 2015

Unknown's avatarBryan Vanderkruk1 Comment
Event Recap, Review

Toronto Whisky Society’s Inaugural Feather’s Night

last night was the inaugural Toronto Whisky Society meet-up (not that we called ourselves that back then… more of a /r/canadawhisky subreddit meetup), and we had a big crowd out at the Feathers Pub in Toronto! had a great group come out around 8 and i think we stayed till 12:30ish. everyone had a bunch of drams and from what i could tell, a really good time! … Continue reading Toronto Whisky Society’s Inaugural Feather’s Night

Unknown's avatarBryan Vanderkruk1 Comment