The Society’s small-batch Islay Festival bottling Smoky Maritime Hit wins ‘Extraordinary: Ultimate Recommendation’ award in prestigious USC competition. The Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s Islay Festival bottling for the United States, Smoky Maritime Hit, has proved [...]
A Guide to a Whisky Expo After a terrible year we are starting to see whisky festivals return. Here are my top tips for attending one! Check out the festival website before you go. Write [...]
Whisky is the most complex spirit you can put in your glass. It’s also the most flavoursome and fun to explore in a group of friends around a table, and have your very own ‘coorie [...]
As we roll into the summer months of the year, the team at SMWS Australia like to look back, go through our activity log, our emails and messages, and see what the most asked questions [...]
Although I technically qualify as a millennial, even I can get overwhelmed by the overuse of hashtags. They often get thrown around with wild abandon, and one would be forgiven for thinking they are unimportant [...]
This month’s Malt of the Month is all about the Sugared Summer Strawberries, so let’s pour a dram to remind us of warmer days... Founded in 1897, BenRiach has a distillery history story not too [...]
The word is out. Back in 2018, we had a special cask of whisky bottled in Scotland exclusively for our Partner Bar network worldwide. While every cask is usually bottled for members, this one was [...]
I fondly recall my first SMWS experience... -- ...it was way back in 2010 and I along with some work colleagues attended our first SMWS tasting (held at the Dinosaur Room of the Australian National [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
