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Jim McEwan's answer to critic who claimed Bruichladdich didn't make peated whisky beacuse they didn't have the skills to do it well. With "heavily peated" whisky starting at 30ppm, we'll just call Octomore's 80-308ppm "super heavily peated".
Octomore's young and cask strength spirit should be as current master distiller Adam Hannet has joked, Bruichladdich's most undrinkable whisky: "It’s too young, too strong and too peaty." Also known as "The impossible equation"; an equation that the Bruichladdich Distillery has mastered.
Join us for a series of whisky flights as we drink our way through the first decade or so of Octomore's journey - paired with a current release at each flight!
The Lineup:
Flight 1
Canberra: 6th August 2025
Private Tasting Room, Liquor Legends Hawker
Sydney: 13th August 2025 (TBC)
Bar 26 Lilyfield
- 01.1
- 06.3
- 07.4
- 09.2
- A Current Release
Flight 2
Canberra: 1st October 2025
Private Tasting Room, Liquor Legends Hawker
Sydney: 8th October 2025 (TBC)
Bar 26 Lilyfield
- 02.1
- 06.2
- 08.1
- 09.3
- A Current Release
Flight 3
Canberra: 3rd December 2025
Private Tasting Room, Liquor Legends Hawker
Sydney: 10th December 2025 (TBC)
Bar 26 Lilyfield
- 03.1
- 07.2
- 08.4
- Renegade: Meleager
- A Current Release
Flight 4
Canberra: 1st February 2026
Private Tasting Room, Liquor Legends Hawker
Sydney: 11th February 2026 (TBC)
Bar 26 Lilyfield
- 04.1
- 08.3
- Ten (Edition 1)
- Renegade: Epione
- A Current Release
Flight 5
Canberra: 15th April 2026
Private Tasting Room, Liquor Legends Hawker
Sydney: 22nd April 2026 (TBC)
Bar 26 Lilyfield
- 05.1
- 07.3
- Ten (Edition 2)
- Discovery
- A Current Release
Flight 6
Canberra: 3rd June 2026
Private Tasting Room, Liquor Legends Hawker
Sydney: 10th June 2026 (TBC)
Bar 26 Lilyfield
- 06.1
- 08.2
- Ten (Edition 3)
- Event Horizon
- A Current Release
Flight 7
Canberra: 5th August 2026
Private Tasting Room, Liquor Legends Hawker
Sydney: 12th August 2026 (TBC)
Bar 26 Lilyfield
- 07.1
- 02.2
- Futures 2002
- Character of Islay Whisky Company Single Cask 9yo
- A Current Release
Flight 8
Canberra: 7th October
Private Tasting Room, Liquor Legends Hawker
Sydney: 14th October 2026 (TBC)
Bar 26 Lilyfield
- 09.1
- 04.2
- Futures: The Beast
- Octomore Black Arts
- A Current Release
The Food
A light dinner will be provided during these events.
The Fine Print:
If you have dietary requirements, please get in contact with us as early as possible.
Photo and/or video recording of this event may occur.
This event is only for persons aged 18 years or older.
Upcoming Flights
We've got a great selection of flights planned for the near future, with destinations including some favourite distilleries from Islay, and Speyside, in Scotland; a tour of Irish single casks, a meandering tour across Europe and Scandinavia, and some stunning sights from the United States of America.
We will also be taking off for some domestic destinations, where stories abound of the hard yakka that goes into setting up some of The New World's most loved distilleries - where we will try some of the boldest, meatiest, whiskies that have been slumbering away on this sunburnt country of ours!
Make sure your luggage is securely stowed, and your seatbelts are done up low and tight folks - some of these flights will be like none that have ever graced this beautiful capital of ours!
Why Can't We Be Friends
Canadian & American Whiskey!
6:30pm - 4th July 2025
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $150
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Boilermaker: Riverbourne & Capital Brewing
6:30pm - 7th July 2025
Capital Brewing Co, Fyshwick
Cost: $50 + Eventbrite fees
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Two Stacks Irish Whiskey
6:00pm - 10th July 2025
Peacemaker Saloon, Braddon
Cost: $60
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Octomore - The First Decade (or so)
An 8-part Series!
August 2025 - October 2026
Canberra: Liquor Legends, Hawker
Sydney: Bar 26, Lilyfield
Cost: $175 per session - Season Pass Available!
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Past Flights
Blashpemy!
6:30pm - 1st May 2025
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $109-129
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Battery Point Distillery - MEET THE MAKER!
6:30pm - Wednesday 26th February
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $79 - 99
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Derwent Distillery - MEET THE MAKER!
6:30pm - Thursday 27th February 2025
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $79 - 99
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Distiller's Dinner
6:30pm - 28th February 2025
The Inn at Edgar's, Ainslie
Cost: $199 - 229
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Whisky Capital
1:00pm & 5:30pm - Saturday 1st March 2025
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $129 - 149
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Whisky Flights + The Whisky List
Sagamore Rye
6:30pm - Thursday 12th December 2024
Midnight Hotel, Braddon
Cost: $99 - $119
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Riverbourne Distillery - MEET THE MAKER!
6:30pm - 29th November 2024
Midnight Hotel, Braddon
Cost: $89 - $109
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Single Casks of Scotch Regions!
6:30pm - 24th October 2024
Midnight Hotel, Braddon
Cost: $99-119
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Backwoods Distillery & Jasper+Myrtle
A whisky & chocolate pairing WITH THE DISTILLER!
6:30pm - 6th September 2024
Midnight Hotel, Braddon
Cost: $119 - 139
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Canberra Whisky Week: Boilermaker Night
with Riverbourne Distillery & Tumut River Brewing Co
6:30pm - 23rd October 2024
TRBC Kingston
Cost: $TBA
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Single Casks of Scotch Regions!
6:30pm - 24th October 2024
Midnight Hotel, Braddon
Cost: $99-119
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Distiller's Dinner
6:30pm - 25th October 2024
The Inn at Edgar's, Ainslie
Cost: $199 - 229
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Big Bold Ben & Friends - A Benriach Boilermaker
6:30pm - 3rd May 2024
Midnight Hotel, Braddon
Cost: From $109
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A Trek through Ireland
6:30pm - 15th March 2024
Midnight Hotel, Braddon
Cost: $129-149
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BLASPHEMY!
6:30pm - 2nd February 2024
Midnight Hotel, Braddon
Cost: from $99
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Local Whisky & Chocolate Pairing
Riverbourne & Jasper+Myrtle - Meet the Makers!
6:30pm - 13th December 2023
Novotel Canberra
Cost: from $99
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Cut Hill - With The Distiller
6:30pm - 18th October 2023
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $100-120
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The Spoils of Feis Ile 2023 - Part 2
6:30pm - 20th September 2023
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $100-125
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The Spoils of Feis Ile 2023
Part 1: Bruichladdich
6:30pm - 16th August 2023
Novotel Canberra & Virtual via Zoom
Cost: $120-145
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Snowy Mountains Spirits - MEET THE MAKER
6:30pm - 19th July 2023
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $110 - $130
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World Whisky
6:30pm - 17th May 2023
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $85
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Craft Works - with the distiller!
6:30pm - Thursday 20th April 2022
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $135
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The Peat of the Irish
6:30pm - 15th March 2023
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $99 - 119
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Whisky Capital
4th February 2023
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $139 - $159
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The Independent Bottlers of Black Gate
NEW DATE!
6:30pm - 14th December 2022
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $110 - $130
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Blend Your Own Whisky with Amber Lane
6:30pm - 16th November 2022
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $110 - $130
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Australia vs Ireland vs Scotland:
An exploration of Sherry casks
6:30pm - 19th October 2022
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $79 - $99
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Backwoods - Meet the Distiller!
6:30pm - 21st September 2022
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $90 - $110
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Riverbourne Distillery &
Tumut River Brewing Co:
A Boilermaker
6:30pm - 17th August 2022
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $79 - 99
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Flora & Fauna:
The Single Malts of Diageo
6:30pm - 20th July 2022
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $110
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Barrel & Batch
6:30pm - 15th June 2022
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $129 - $149
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Oaked Gold & Craft Works
6:30pm - 18th May 2022
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $75 - 90
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NED Australian Whisky
6:30pm - 20th April 2022
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $80 ($65 Early Bird)
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Writer's Tears
6:30pm - 16th March 2022
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $120
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Yack Creek Distilling - Meet The Distiller!
6:30pm - 9th February 2022
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $120
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Whisky Flights Christmas Party: The year that was 2021
6:30pm - 8th December 2021
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $120
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Octomore - International Travel Exclusives
6:30pm - 17th November 2021
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $130
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Virtual Flight
Belgrove - With The Distiller
6:45pm - 3rd November 2021
Online Event via Zoom with 6x30ml whisky tasting kit
Cost: $110 (plus shipping - free pickup from Fyshwick, ACT)
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Virtual Flight
Riverbourne - With The Distiller
6:45pm - 13th October 2021
Online Event via Zoom
Cost: $69 (plus shipping - free pickup from Fyshwick, ACT)
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Craft Works Distillery - Meet the Distiller!
6:30pm - 11th August 2021 → Please Note The Date Change
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $115
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The Regions of Scotch Whisky
6:30pm - 9th June 2021
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $80
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Bruichladdich: Peat in all dimensions
6:30pm - 12th May 2021
Novotel Canberra
Cost: $115
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Overeem
6:00pm - 28th April 2021
Farrah's Liqour Collective
Cost: $75
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Black Gate: Peat & Port - Meet the Distillers!
6:30pm - 14th April 2021
Novotel Canberra
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Irish Pot Still paired with Jasper+Myrtle Chocolate
6:30pm - 10th March 2021
Novotel Canberra
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Riverbourne Distillery
6:30pm - 10th February 2021
Novotel Canberra
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