On Wednesday, April 15th, the Saratoga Whiskey Club had its 50th tasting! It's quite the milestone for our club. Too bad it had to be online, but during these uncertain times.... The tasting’s focus was different styles of American Whiskey. We had 7 different releases...
Tasting Recaps
The tasting recaps describe each tasting over the past few years: the whiskies that were sampled, the group size and photos from the events. We hope you enjoy.
Tasting #49: SMWS April Preview
On Wednesday, April 1st, the Saratoga Whiskey Club had its 49th tasting. This tasting’s focus was the new release of April whiskies from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. We had 6 different releases to taste from. Ben Diedrich, Co-Director of the Society here in the...
Tasting #48: SMWS March Preview
On Wednesday, March 4th, the Saratoga Whiskey Club had its 48th tasting. This tasting's focus was the new release of March whiskies from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. We had 8 different releases to taste from. It was a great tasting of whisky from so many different...
Tasting #47: The Whisky Hoop
On Wednesday, February 19th, the Saratoga Whiskey Club held its 47th tasting as a club. The theme for this tasting was The Whisky Hoop Independent Bottlings. These bottles were brought back from Japan. The Whisky Hoop is a members-only independent bottler that sells...
Tasting #46: Burns Night
On Thursday, January 30th, the Saratoga Whiskey Club had its 46th tasting. It was incredibly special evening as it was our first Burns Night for the club! Holly Seidewand from Bacardi's Single Malts Portfolio hosted our group and brought along some special whiskies....
Tasting #45: Journeyman Distillery
On Monday, January 20th, the Saratoga Whiskey Club had its 45th tasting. Kevin O'Rourke from Michigan's Journeyman Distillery came to host a great evening for the club. Not only were we able to taste their Last Feather Rye Whiskey and Featherbone Bourbon Whiskey, but...
Tasting #44: Single Cask Irish Whiskey
On Wednesday, January 8th, the Saratoga Whiskey Club had its 44th tasting and started 2020 off strong! The theme of this tasting was Single Cask Irish Whiskey. It was a great mix of very different Irish whiskies, most of them brought back from Ireland in 2019. 19...
Tasting #43: Blind Bottled In Bond
On Wednesday, December 18th, the Saratoga Whiskey Club had its 43rd tasting! The theme of this tasting was a Blind Bottled In Bond tasting. We not only did this blind (not knowing the names of the whiskies), but people had different placemats too so nobody could...
Tasting #42: SMWS November Releases
On Wednesday, November 6th, the Saratoga Whiskey Club had its 42nd tasting as a club! The theme of this tasting was New November Releases from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. We will be doing similar tastings once a quarter going forward as we really enjoy tasting...
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