Saturday 18 May

Dawn Davies MW, Billy Abbott and Ortis Deley

WELCOME TO WHISKY 24 HOURS

Starts at 11:00 BST Saturday 18 May

An introduction to Whisky 24 Hours: what’s going on, who to expect to see and how to join in.

Emma Walker, Ian Palmer and Peter Mulryan

SCOTLAND & IRELAND: CHALLENGING THE STATUS QUO

Starts at 11:15 BST Saturday 18 May

A look at how Scotland and Ireland are bringing back old traditions, creating new ones and challenging the current status quo.

Frédéric Revol, Loig Le Lay and Patrick van Zuidam

EUROPE: MOVE OVER BARLEY

Starts at 12:30 BST Saturday 18 May

A dive into the grain revolution that is sweeping European whisky distilleries, looking beyond barley.

Tagore Ramoutar and James Doherty

CREATING STANDARDS

Starts at 14:00 BST Saturday 18 May

What does it take to set up standards for a whisky region, and what standards should we be setting?

Georgie Crawford, Adam Hannett and Martin Markvardsen

ISLAND POWER: SMALL BUT MIGHTY

Starts at 15:30 BST Saturday 18 May

The Scottish islands aren’t all that big, but they’ve grabbed the attention of the world over the years. What is their appeal and what makes their whiskies so special?

Anistatia Miller, Jared Brown and Jon Lister

DID WHISKY CHANGE COCKTAILS OR DID COCKTAILS CHANGE WHISKY

Starts at 17:00 BST Saturday 18 May

What came first: the popularity of whisky or the popularity of whisky cocktails? We dive into the history of cocktails and try to find out.

Pete Allison and Roy Duff

THE HEART OF THE BLEND

Starts at 18:30 BST Saturday 18 May

There are distilleries across Scotland with excellent whiskies that disappear, unknown, into blends. It’s time to have a taste of some of them, see what they’re like on their own and find out why the blenders guard them so jealously.

Drew Mayville, Andrea Wilson and Miles Monroe

AMERICA: THE BIG, THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

Starts at 20:00 BST Saturday 18 May

A look at American whiskey and both why it has won over so many hearts and minds in recent history and how it is changing.

Brendan McCarron and Lora Hemy

THE SCIENCE OF DISTILLATION

Starts at 21:30 BST Saturday 18 May

There are many ways to make whisky and create a distinct character, but one area where there’s both a lot of options and a lot of misinformation is distillation. We’ll pull apart the distillation process and find out how the choices the distiller makes change the character of the final whisky.

Jason Vaswani and Sukhinder Singh

OLD AND RARE AROUND THE WORLD

Starts at 23:00 BST Saturday 18 May

Old and rare whisky doesn’t only come from Scotland, and in this tasting we’ll be travelling around the globe trying some whiskies released over the past few decades that show how things have changed.

Sunday 19 May

Sarah Jeltema (Whisky Nomad)

WOMEN IN WHISKY

Starts at 00:30 BST Sunday 19 May

While the whisky world may seem male-dominated, behind the scenes many of the best whiskies are created by women. In this session we’ll explore a few of them.

Rox Tiburolobo and Maggie Campbell

AMERICA: THE TRUTH OF AMERICAN WHISKEY

Starts at 02:00 BST Sunday 19 May

An exploration into the history of distilling in America and how it has shaped the spirits we enjoy today. We’ll be following the story from the Native tradition of fermented alcoholic beverages (of both the distilled and undistilled variety) and their influence on modern distillation through the history of industry giant Jack Daniels and looking at what might be in store too.

Maya Aley, Stefan van Eycken and Liam McNulty

JAPAN: THE FUTURE

Starts at 03:30 BST Sunday 19 May

With 100 years of whisky history behind it, Japan is entering a new era of distilling. We’ll be joined by a panel from Japan to look at what’s going on at the moment and speculate on what is to come.

Ashok Chokalingam, Yuhan Zhi and Bryan Do

ASIA: Old & NEW

Starts at 05:00 BST Sunday 19 May

Asia has become a powerhouse of whiskymaking over the past few decades. However, the continent is not done yet, with new countries recently starting and releasing their first whiskies while veteran producers continue to develop an innovate. Join us for a discussion of the state of things and a vision of things to come.

Desiree Reid, Mat Thomson and Jane Overeem

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: NEW WORLD, NEW WAYS

Starts at 06:30 BST Sunday 19 May

Australia and New Zealand are changing the face of modern whisky. We’ll be joined by an antipodean panel to look into what happening down under and what’s to come.

Dawn Davies MW, Billy Abbott and Ortis Deley

WHISKY OF THE YEAR HALL OF FAME

Starts at 08:00 BST Sunday 19 May

The Whisky Exchange’s Whisky of the Year award has become a fixture in the yearly drinks calendar and in this session we’ll look back over the past decade of winners, picking out a few favourites to revisit.

Dawn Davies MW, Billy Abbott and Ortis Deley

THE WHISKY 24 HOURS GAME SHOW

Starts at 09:30 BST Sunday 19 May

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Dawn Davies MW, Billy Abbott and Ortis Deley

WHISKY 24 HOURS - THANK YOU

Starts at 10:45 BST Sunday 19 May

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