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What a year 2017 has been thus far. The MS Calgary Whisky Festival in mid January was a huge success. The weather was mild and for a sellout crowd of 550 guests we had more than 225 whiskies open for sampling. The next day many of the presenters and...

Margaret Swaine The nip came before the nation. Whisky distillation came to our soils before we were called Canada. European immigrants brought stills and knowledge of distillation with them in the 1700’s. Though it’s impossible to determine...

The Fall 2015 issue of Whisky Advocate magazine will be hitting the newsstand in early September. Here’s a sneak preview of the issue’s Buying Guide reviews; the 10 highest-rated whiskies of the issue. #10 – Wild Turkey Master’s Keep, 43.4%, $150 A...

The big news at the seventh annual Edmonton Whisky Festival last week wasn’t the record attendance or $50,000 being raised for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. It was that Edmontonian Graeme Macaloney and wife Andrea have just embarked on creating a...

As we welcome the 10th anniversary of The Walking Dead and the release of issue 115, hundreds of stores across the world will be taking part in midnight release events! Each participating store will have copies of the TWD 115 Midnight Release variant...