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Whisky Scholar is designed to give you an in-depth (and fun) education on whisky.
If you’re new here, start with the primers, which are free to everyone.
When you’re ready for a bit more, upgrade to paid to get access to more focused articles, which dig into the science, history, and culture of the dram.
As a paid subscriber, you’ll also get access to a growing archive of tasting notes in the Tasting Lab. These are weekly deep dives into a particular dram, providing you with the full production information, chemical compounds of the flavour profile, detailed tasting notes, and a final score…so you can decide if it’s worth your pocket money.
For the thirsty, we’ve created the Sigma Theta Malt Society. This exclusive tier, reserved for Founding Members, is a private community with extra content, live tastings, spirited conversations, and a one-of-a-kind Society pin badge.
Upgrade to paid to become a bonafide Whisky Scholar.
Free Subscribers get…
Primers: montly overviews and basic whisky information for the beginner (plus the archive of all primers!).
Occasional free posts: tasters here and there to entice and whet the palate.
Paid Subscribers get…
Weekly Tasting Labs (Tuesdays): a deep dive into a dram, complete with scoring table, flavour profile, chemical compound breakdown, explanation of flavour origin, historical and cultural overview, food pairs, score out of 100.
Weekly Scholar Post (Thursdays): an in-depth article about the science and/or history of whisky—like a grad school education to help you to become an expert.
Weekly Spotlight Article (Sundays): from conversations with experts in the field to interviews with all manor of people in the process, get a peek into the cultural world of whisky.
Quarterly Study Packs: for the true nerds amongst us, we’ll package up the info from the last quarter into study tables for flashcards and cram sessions. (Think: chemical compounds that contribute to flavour, temps needed for distillation, and a glossary of whisky lingo.
If you’re a major whisky nerd and room for more friends in your life, we’d love for you to join the Sigma Theta Malt society.
Sigma Theta Malt members get:
access to exclusive posts and articles
a spot in our private Slack community, where chat (nerd out!) on a daily basis
a society pin badge and certificate of membership!
monthly live chats and tastings
Subscribe to get full access to the newsletter and publication archives.
