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Friday Early Bird
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3 Oct 2025
Saturday 18 May
WELCOME TO WHISKY 24 HOURS
With Dawn Davies MW, Billy Abbott and Ortis DeleyStarts 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.
SCOTLAND & IRELAND: CHALLENGING THE STATUS QUO
With Emma Walker, Ian Palmer and Peter MulryanStarts 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.
EUROPE: MOVE OVER BARLEY
With Frédéric Revol, Loig Le Lay and Patrick van ZuidamStarts at 12:30 BST Saturday 18 May
A dive into the grain revolution that is sweeping European whisky distilleries, looking beyond barley.
CREATING STANDARDS
With Tagore Ramoutar and James DohertyStarts 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?
ISLAND POWER: SMALL BUT MIGHTY
With Georgie Crawford, Adam Hannett and Martin MarkvardsenStarts 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?
DID WHISKY CHANGE COCKTAILS OR DID COCKTAILS CHANGE WHISKY
With Anistatia Miller, Jared Brown and Jon ListerStarts 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.
THE HEART OF THE BLEND
With Pete Allison and Roy DuffStarts 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.
AMERICA: THE BIG, THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
With Drew Mayville, Andrea Wilson and Miles MonroeStarts 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.
THE SCIENCE OF DISTILLATION
With Brendan McCarron and Lora HemyStarts 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.
OLD AND RARE AROUND THE WORLD
With Jason Vaswani and Sukhinder SinghStarts 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
WOMEN IN WHISKY
With Sarah Jeltema (Whisky Nomad)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.
AMERICA: THE TRUTH OF AMERICAN WHISKEY
With Rox Tiburolobo and Maggie CampbellStarts 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.
JAPAN: THE FUTURE
With Maya Aley, Stefan van Eycken and Liam McNultyStarts 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.
ASIA: Old & NEW
With Ashok Chokalingam, Yuhan Zhi and Bryan DoStarts 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.
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: NEW WORLD, NEW WAYS
With Desiree Reid, Mat Thomson and Jane OvereemStarts 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.
WHISKY OF THE YEAR HALL OF FAME
With Dawn Davies MW, Billy Abbott and Ortis DeleyStarts 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.
THE WHISKY 24 HOURS GAME SHOW
With Dawn Davies MW, Billy Abbott and Ortis DeleyStarts at 09:30 BST Sunday 19 May
More details to follow…
WHISKY 24 HOURS - THANK YOU
With Dawn Davies MW, Billy Abbott and Ortis DeleyStarts at 10:45 BST Sunday 19 May