*** FOR IN - STORE TASTINGS: PLEASE SELECT THE PICKUP OPTION  - WE DO NOT SEND TICKETS  - YOUR NAME IS ADDED TO THE GUEST LIST *** 

VIRTUAL TASTING SAMPLES CAN BE PICKED UP OR DELIVERED ( FOR A FEE) 

**NOTE** We are now offering Both Virtual and in-store tastings. Virtual tastings will clearly state that above the name of the tasting. 

Liquor tasting samples for virtual tastings are typically 15ml each unless otherwise indicated.

• We offer Free City Wide Delivery within the  Calgary city limits for Orders Over $ 250  ** ONLY if all samples can be delivered at the same time. If you are purchasing multiple events - logistically, we may not be able to have all samples ready to go in one delivery. As you do have the option of picking up your samples, we will deliver as much as we can in the first delivery for free, any subsequent deliveries will be $10. 
• We can arrange shipping within Alberta for a fee. - packaging and shipping fees apply.
• We do Not ship out of the Province.

Please be sure to include a valid email address in your order as we will contact participants a few days before the tasting with instructions on how to participate.

Cancellation Policy:

• Registrations can be gifted or transferred - you are welcome to allow someone else to take your place if you cannot take part in the tasting.
  • For virtual tastings you will need to arrange getting them the samples if you have already received them, You are also responsible to send them the link for the tasting as it will be emailed to the purchaser.
  • For in person events, You would need to give us their name for the list if you are not attending.

• Tastings are non refundable – For both virtual and In Person events, you will receive a ** store credit for the value if you cancel more than 48 hours in advance of the event. *** PLEASE NOTE: Larger group cancellations (3 or more)  for in store tastings require the cancellation request be submitted a minimum of 4 days prior to the tasting for a store credit to be applied. 
• Due to the logistics of pickup and delivery of samples for virtual  , cancellations will not be considered within 7 days of the tasting,**  or if you have already received the tastings samples. Once delivered or picked up, we cannot take the tasting bottles back.

• Store Credits can be used for anything KWM sells  - you do not have to use them specifically for tastings.

Tastings typically start at 7:00 pm unless otherwise noted. Please make sure you are aware of the start time.
We encourage participants to drink responsibly.

December 2024

Virtual Tasting
This Is Not An Advent Calendar Tasting 2 - Advent Days 6-10

• December 10, 2024
• 7 PM
• $70.00

This is not an Advent Calendar; it's an Advent Whisky Tasting! It is the second of five, five whisky tastings we'll be hosting throughout Advent. We have endeavoured to make each of these 5 tastings equally interesting, with a comparable balance of products with respect to price, age, and style. SAVE $50 by doing all 5 tastings, by selecting our "This Is Not An Advent Calendar The Full Monty - All 5 Whisky Advent Tastings!"

Each tasting kit includes 5 - 28ml top-secret premium whiskies. The name of each whisky is a closely guarded secret and has been redacted. KWM Staff have either been sworn to secrecy or are suffering from an entirely unrelated bout of short-term memory loss. You'll have to log in to the tasting on Zoom from a secure location using the QR code on the box for a classified debriefing on all 5 whiskies, Tuesday, December 10th, 2024, @ 7 PM MT. The origins of each whisky will be revealed in the tasting, but can also be found on the KWM Blog, through our social media channels, or by scanning the QR code on each bottle.


Tuesday, December 10th @ 7 PM

Seats Remaining: 3

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Virtual Tasting
This Is Not An Advent Calendar Tasting 3 - Advent Days 11-15

• December 15, 2024
• 7 PM
• $70.00

This is not an Advent Calendar; it's an Advent Whisky Tasting! It is the third of five, five whisky tastings we'll be hosting throughout Advent. We have endeavoured to make each of these 5 tastings equally interesting, with a comparable balance of products with respect to price, age, and style. SAVE $50 by doing all 5 tastings, by selecting our "This Is Not An Advent Calendar the Full Monty - All 5 Whisky Advent Tastings!"

Each tasting kit includes 5 - 28ml top-secret premium whiskies. The name of each whisky is a closely guarded secret and has been redacted. KWM Staff have either been sworn to secrecy or are suffering from an entirely unrelated bout of short-term memory loss. You'll have to log in to the tasting on Zoom from a secure location using the QR code on the box for a classified debriefing on all 5 whiskies, Sunday, December 5th, 2024, @ 7 PM MT. The origins of each whisky will be revealed in the tasting, but can also be found on the KWM Blog, through our social media channels, or by scanning the QR code on each bottle.

Sunday, December 15th @ 7 PM

Seats Remaining: 3

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Virtual Tasting
Rare & Old Virtual - 200 Years of Benromach with James & Andrew

• December 17, 2024
• 7 PM
• $300.00

Benromach is one of our favourite distilleries at KWM. James Bornn and Andrew Ferguson (two of Benromach's biggest fanboys) who sat in on Richard's tasting during the Rare & Old Whisky Weekend will guide you through nearly 200 years of the distillery’s liquid history. They will paraphrase and butcher Richard's stories while droning on about how Benromach reminds them of old Springbank and Brora. This might just be the most epic Benromach vertical tasting ever… roughly $12k of Rare & Old whisky!

Benromach 21 Year
Benromach 2003 Cask 34
Benromach 2002 KWM Bourbon Cask 875
Benromach 2002 Cask 360 Canada Excl
Benromach Aged 40 Years 2022 Batch 1 57.6%
Benromach Aged 40 Years 2022 Batch 2 56.5%
G&M Private Collection Benromach 1982

Tuesday, December 17 @ 7PM

*TASTING KITS ARE READY FOR PICKUP!*

Seats Remaining: 8

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Virtual Tasting
This Is Not An Advent Calendar Tasting 4 - Advent Days 16-20

• December 20, 2024
• 7 PM
• $70.00

This is not an Advent Calendar; it's an Advent Whisky Tasting! It is the fourth of five, five whisky tastings we'll be hosting throughout Advent. We have endeavoured to make each of these 5 tastings equally interesting, with a comparable balance of products with respect to price, age, and style. SAVE $50 by doing all 5 tastings, by selecting our "This Is Not An Advent Calendar The Full Monty - All 5 Whisky Advent Tastings!"

Each tasting kit includes 5 - 28ml top-secret premium whiskies. The name of each whisky is a closely guarded secret and has been redacted. KWM Staff have either been sworn to secrecy or are suffering from an entirely unrelated bout of short-term memory loss. You'll have to log in to the tasting on Zoom from a secure location using the QR code on the box for a classified debriefing on all 5 whiskies, Friday, December 20th, 2024, @ 7 PM MT. The origins of each whisky will be revealed in the tasting, but can also be found on the KWM Blog, through our social media channels, or by scanning the QR code on each bottle.

Friday, December 20th @ 7 PM

This event is sold out.

Virtual Tasting
This Is Not An Advent Calendar Tasting 5 - Advent Days 21-25

• December 27, 2024
• 7 PM
• $70.00

This is not an Advent Calendar; it's an Advent Whisky Tasting! It is the fifth and final of five, five whisky tastings we'll be hosting throughout Advent. We have endeavoured to make each of these 5 tastings equally interesting, with a comparable balance of products with respect to price, age, and style. SAVE $50 by doing all 5 tastings, by selecting our "This Is Not An Advent Calendar The Full Monty - All 5 Whisky Advent Tastings!"

Each tasting kit includes 5 - 28ml top-secret premium whiskies. The name of each whisky is a closely guarded secret and has been redacted. KWM Staff have either been sworn to secrecy or are suffering from an entirely unrelated bout of short-term memory loss. You'll have to log in to the tasting on Zoom from a secure location using the QR code on the box for a classified debriefing on all 5 whiskies, Friday, December 27th, 2024, @ 7 PM MT. The origins of each whisky will be revealed in the tasting, but can also be found on the KWM Blog, through our social media channels, or by scanning the QR code on each bottle.

Friday, December 27th @ 7 PM

This event is sold out.

Virtual Tasting
This Is Not An Advent Calendar The Full Monty - All 5 Whisky Advent Tastings!

• December 27, 2024
• 7 PM
• $330.00

WE SOLD OUT, BUT FRET NOT... We are going to build a few more... ready for pickup by December 11!

This is not an Advent Calendar; it's a series of 5 Advent Whisky Advent Tastings we are hosting on December 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, and 27th at 7 PM MT on Zoom. We have endeavoured to make each of these 5 tastings equally interesting, with a comparable balance of products with respect to price, age, and style. Each tasting has a whisky over 23 years of age, and the average over all the tastings, excluding the 6 NAS bottlings, is 17.8 years. Each tasting also includes at least 1 KWM Cask, 1 peated whisky, and 1 whisky which is not a Scottish single malt.

Each tasting kit includes 5 - 28ml top-secret premium whiskies. The name of each whisky is a closely guarded secret and has been redacted. KWM Staff have either been sworn to secrecy or are suffering from an entirely unrelated bout of short-term memory loss. You'll have to log in to the tasting on Zoom from a secure location using the QR code on the box for a classified debriefing on all 5 whiskies, Thursday, December 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, and 27th, 2024, @ 7 PM MT. The origins of each whisky will be revealed in the tasting, but can also be found on the KWM Blog, through our social media channels, or by scanning the QR code on each bottle.

Each full Monty tastings set also includes a KWM Whisky Advent Discount Card, only available if you purchase the full set!

Thursday, December 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, & 27th, @ 7 PM

We hope to have the tasting kits ready for pickup the week of November 18.


Seats Remaining: 10

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January 2025

Virtual Tasting
Old Malt Cask 25th Anniversary Virtual Tasting

• January 7, 2025
• 7 PM
• $45.00

THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING

The Old Malt Cask range of independent bottlings was first launched in 1998 by a family-owned whisky firm Douglas Laing. The whiskies first started to appear in Alberta around the same time Andrew started working at KWM. They were some of the most interesting and exciting whiskies at the time. Brothers Fred and Stewart Laing, who inherited Douglas Laing from their father parted ways in 2013, and the Old Malt Cask range went with Stewart and his sons, to their new firm Hunter Laing. As with the 20th Anniversary, to mark its 25th, Hunter Laing bottled a number of single casks in retro (late 1990s packaging). We sample through 8 single casks including whiskies from Benrinnes, Blair Athol, Caol Ila, Fettercairn, Incgower, Miltonduff, Speyburn, & Tomintoul.

Tuesday, January 7 @ 7 PM

Seats Remaining: 20

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Virtual Tasting
SMWS January Virtual Outturn 7PM

• January 8, 2025
• 7 PM
• $55.00

THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING

Log in, pour your drams and join us from home, the cabin, or work... for the first Scotch Malt Whisky Society Canada Virtual Outturn Tasting of 2025! The KWM team will be your guide as you sample through an exciting range of 7 SMWS bottlings. SMWS Members Save $10 on their tasting registration (discount is limited to 1 per member if you are buying a ticket for another member as well as yourself, you will only get one member price).

Wednesday, January 8th @ 7 PM

Seats Remaining: 23

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SMWS January In-Person Outturn 6PM

• January 10, 2025
• 6 PM
• KWM
• $60.00

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Canada’s January 2024 Outturn tasting will feature 7 new bottlings and some nibbles from our friends at Peasant Cheese and the comradery that can only come from 20 SMWS Members in our tasting room. SMWS Members Save $10 on their tasting registration (discount is limited to 1 per member if you are buying a ticket for another member as well as yourself, you will only get one member price).

Friday, January 10h @ 6 PM

Seats Remaining: 1

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SMWS January In-Person Outturn 8PM

• January 10, 2025
• 8 PM
• KWM
• $60.00

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Canada’s January 2024 Outturn tasting will feature 7 new bottlings and some nibbles from our friends at Peasant Cheese and the comradery that can only come from 20 SMWS Members in our tasting room. SMWS Members Save $10 on their tasting registration (discount is limited to 1 per member if you are buying a ticket for another member as well as yourself, you will only get one member price).

Friday, January 10h @ 8 PM

Seats Remaining: 13

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Virtual Tasting
Octomore 14s v. 15s & Two 18 Year Old Laddies

• January 14, 2025
• 7 PM
• $55.00

THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING

Bruichladdich's 15th release of Octomores is here, and there are still some bottles of the 14th release kicking around. That would be a great tasting in its own right, however, it will be made even better with the addition of two Bruichladdich 18-year-olds. We'll be pitting the new official Bruichladdich 18 Year against an 18-year-old from Rest & Be to warm up your palate before setting it on fire contrasting Octomores 14.1, 14.2, and 14.3 with Octomores 15.1, 15.2, and 15.3.

Tuesday, January 14th @ 7 PM

Seats Remaining: 19

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Virtual Tasting
Kilkerran (Glengyle Distillery) 20th Anniversary Tasting

• January 21, 2025
• 7 PM
• $75.00

THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING

The only distillery ever opened out of spite (there is a great story here we'll be sure to tell), Glengyle Distillery (whose whisky goes by the name Kilkerran), is now 20 years old! To mark the occasion, Kilkerran's importer Gold Medal Marketing was offered a 15-year-old Bourbon single cask of Kilkerran single malt. We'll be sampling it, the Kilkerran 16 Year, and all 6 whiskies from the Kilkerran 10 Year Anniversary Pack: Oloroso Wood, Madeira Wood, Fino Wood, Rum Wood, Bourbon Wood, & Port Wood. We'll sample 8 Kilkerrans and raise a glass to the late Hedley Wright while blethering about Kilkerran and Campbeltown.

Tuesday, January 21st @ 7 PM

Seats Remaining: 15

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The Burns Bash Whisky Festival

• January 23, 2025
• 7 PM
• KWM
• $50.00

The Burns Bash is back! This year, however, we’re marking “the Bard's” birth a day a few days early! This whisky festival will feature a mix of the latest and greatest new arrivals at KWM and some very good deals. We’ve cut out the poetry, bagpipes and haggis (you're welcome), but you’ll get to sample some great malts while enjoying food (not comprised of sheep's innards) from our neighbour Peasant, and catching up with friends new and old. We think that Rabbie would approve of that!

Tuesday, January 21st @ 7 PM

Seats Remaining: 47

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Virtual Tasting
Blinded by Bourbon

• January 28, 2025
• 7 PM
• $40.00

THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING

Evan and Harmony love themselves some Bourbon, and everyone enjoys blind tastings, so we are once again fusing these concepts together. This time around, we will be including 8 different samples of American Bourbon and Rye to taste through and talk about. We can't tell you what's in the lineup - it is a blind tasting after all - but surely you know by now that Team KWM would never let you down. We'll blind you of your biases and give you the chance to discover — or rediscover — a new favourite!

Tuesday, January 28th @ 7 PM

Seats Remaining: 26

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Intro to Whisk(e)y - Bourbon, Single Malt & More

• January 30, 2025
• 7 PM
• KWM
• $30.00

What is whisky? Who makes it and how? Is it spelled WHISKY or WHISKEY? What kind of casks is it aged in? Get answers to these questions and more. This is a chance to get some answers and discover a range of different styles of whisky made in different countries, including Scotland, Canada, USA, Japan, and more!

Thursday, January 30th @ 7 PM

Seats Remaining: 18

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February 2025

Virtual Tasting
Lost in Translation - Nikka 90th Annv.

• February 4, 2025
• 7 PM
• $90.00

THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING

The Japanese have been making whisky for over 100 years. While it began with what is now the Suntory group in 1923, Nikka, established 1934, was not far behind them. As much as it's been tough to get very excited over most of the Japanese Whisky making its way to our shores, it seems we're at the dawn of a new age. Japanese Whisky is definitely on the rise again. We'll sample a range of whiskies from Nikka, including their 90th Anniversary Bottlings, as well as Ichiro's Malt & Grain and a Chichibu single cask bottled for Alberta.

Tuesday, February 4th @ 7 PM

Seats Remaining: 17

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Virtual Tasting
Ardbegeddan - A Virtual Tasting

• February 11, 2025
• 7 PM
• $50.00

THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING

It has been far too long since we've put on a virtual Ardbeg tasting, and we've definitely got some catching up to do. If there's one thing Ardbeg does better than spin a great yarn, it's making great whisky. If you've ever been subjected to one of Curt's unending Ardbeg diatribes, you'll be doubly grateful this one is virtual: Andrew has a mute button on his end! Our range for this smoke-tacular evening will include seven limited edition Ardbegs: the legendary and recently resurrected 17 Year, Anamorphic, Anthology 14 Year, Heavy Vapours Committee, Spectacular, Traigh Bhan 19 Year Batch 6, and Y2K.

Tuesday, February 11th @ 7 PM

This event is sold out.

Virtual Tasting
Another Bowmarathon - Core Range v. Sherry Oak & Two Twenty-Somethings!

• February 18, 2025
• 7 PM
• $40.00

THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING

There is a little buzz surrounding the launch of the Bowmore Sherry Oak range, so we've got a wee head-to-head battle planned. The new Bowmore Sherry Oak 12, 15, and 18-year-olds will toe-up against the core range Bowmore 12, 15, and 18-year-olds. And as a special cherry on top, we will pour the Bowmore 25 Year again and our own exclusive Berry's Bowmore 1997 KWM Cask. All modesty aside (yes, we do have some), the latter dram alone is worth the price of admission.

Tuesday, February 18th @ 7 PM

Seats Remaining: 15

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