Whisky Indy Love Fest 2023
Location
Anarchy Brewery
About
Update*** Not long to go now to the big day and still a few tickets left for both sessions**
The inaugural 2022 festival was an absolute unreservedly excellent blast. We celebrated Independent bottlers and hosted some of the finest at the Tyne Bank Brewery. It was such a success that we have to do it again. You can watch the montage from last year here.
What is an independent whisky bottler? Independent whisky bottlers buy casks of whisky from distilleries and bottle them under their own label. They tend to focus on the flavour of the whisky by managing the maturation in the cask, how long to mature it for, and often using cask finishes to add additional layers of flavour. Another thing is they tend to offer their whisky unchill filtered and higher if not original cask strength so big stuff. Also arguably they offer some of the best value and bang for buck. Some of the bottlers will also be offering often very hard to find bottles there on their stand for you to try and buy straight off them.
This year our principal sponsor is Chaper 7 Whisky, back again but this time supporting the festival in the biggest way possible. They sponsored the 2022 exclusive Glencairn and this year they wanted to go a step further. You can visit their site here www.chapter7whisky.com and I know they will have a fantasic line up on their table at the festival.
The exclusive glass sponsor for 2023 is... Dramfool thanks to Bruce and Colin for jumping in to and your exclusive festival glass will have both the festival and Dramfool logos on them.
The exclusive Glencairn lanyard is a must and you get one free as a ticket holder thanks to the sponsor Woodrow's of Edinburgh
Thanks too to Event and Commercial sponsors: Top Whiskies, Single Cask Nation, Woodrow's of Edinburgh, The Jewellers Guild, Gavin Commercial Photographers, Reid Moffat Accountants and Highlights PR.
The 2023 festival has the following Indie bottlers and retailers Little Brown Dog, Woodrow's of Edinburgh, Dramfool, Lady of the Glen, Chapter 7, Fragrant Drops, Artful Dodger, TopWhiskies, Cadenhead's, Single Cask Nation, Cooper's Choice/Vintage Malts, Mythical Beasts, James Eadie, Fib Whisky, Unchartered and Claxton's (subject to change). There will also be a Distillery represented and it is Glen Moray who will be sharing some outstanding drams that won't be the typical supermarket offerings. It would be near impossible to cram more finer bunch into a single event making this one of the best whisky festivals in the World and its here in the North East, one of the friendliest places on earth :).
Dive in quick as your ticket includes an exclusive festival Glencairn glass/lanyard and all the samples to try in the relaxed wonderful venue that is the Anarchy Brew tap room. There will also be refreshments and at least 1 street food vendor to help soak up some of the typically single cask, cask strength amazing drams.
The event is being arranged through North East Whisky Appreciation Soc. If you join the FB group or subscribe to the newsletter there will be regular updates not to mention other events and good craic. Updates and details are regularly shared on the NEWAS group.
We will also get to do this in a wonderful venue which is the Anarchy Brew Co. craft Brewery and tap room in Newcastle upon Tyne. Its only a metro or bus journey away! The metro station is ~5 mins walk and plenty of buses go past the venue on Shields road. Address is Benfield Business Park, Unit A1, Benfield Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 4NQ (Google map) https://anarchybrewco.com/
Last year we collected for the Whitley bay food bank and Newcastle Dog and Cat shelter this year I'm chuffed to announce The Men's Pie Club (https://www.menspieclub.co.uk/) is the festival charity. This is a very deserving and important cause - 'Men's Pie Club opens once a week for guys in various locations in the North East. It’s all about tackling social isolation and improving mental health. It’s for guys who live alone, or feel alone, or just need an excuse to get out more. There’s no stress and no pressure. Just a bit of cooking.'
