Festive Outturn: Alex Moores
Just when I thought in 2018 that the Society couldn’t get any better, along came 2019... -- What a fantastic year it has been. There is always a bit of a lull over the new [...]
Festive Outturn: Will Edwards
Will Edwards has been a member of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society since 2016. He also happens to be the founder and owner of Archie Rose Distilling Co in Sydney, a proud Partner Bar of [...]
Navigating our festive Outturn for 2019
It's that time of year again, where our massive festive Outturn is upon us and we release our bumper double-issue covering November and December to make your warm dramming months as wonderful as can be. [...]
An Outturn in Couplets?
Earlier this week on our nightly Instagram livestream at 8pm each day, member 'SMYAN' challenged our Cellarmaster if Outturn could be communicated in couplets... SMYAN made us blow our own trumpets, By challenging us [...]
History of the SMWS in Australia – Part One
The following was written by John Rourke, one of the co-founders of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, Australian branch, back in 2002. He wrote this for our Vaults 1682 dinner menu for guests on the [...]
We have a book! Introducing The Founder’s Tale for October
Rewind to May 2019 in the cask room at the Vaults in Edinburgh enjoying a great dinner and a few drams, and I was lucky enough to be sitting literally right next to the very [...]
Introducing distillery 139
Land of the Rising Malts On the 11th of March 2006 at precisely 3:30pm, the first spirit was produced at Kavalan distillery. This is a young world whisky distillery that has properly placed itself on [...]
5 things I wish I knew earlier in my whisky journey
5 things I wish I knew earlier in my whisky journey I’ve proudly been talking about single cask whisky, single malts, rums, Armagnacs, grains, Cognacs, and more for years and years now. I absolutely love [...]
Old Fashioned Friday
Old Fashioned being released this Friday 16/08 for our mid-month offer! When the Society first bottled Japanese whisky, members were furious, membership cards were torn up, anger in the mailroom from their beloved SCOTCH [...]
More accolades for SMWS Bottlings at IWSC 2019
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society continues to wow judges at international tasting competitions, with a string of awards in this year’s International Wine and Spirits Competition (IWSC), now in its 50th year. The IWSC’s top award of Gold Outstanding [...]