Your guide to the club

We recently realised just how many new members we have at the SMWS, and sometimes navigating all that’s available within your membership and what the club does can be daunting, especially if you’re quite new to whisky in general.

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society is a whisky club, a community, a group — flavour enthusiasts that seek full-flavoured whisky where the aromas transcend the norm and awaken the senses. We’re experiential, brazen, unapologetic — our events aren’t just tastings, they’re experiences that stay with you forever, they’re unforgettable memories for our members. We are also an independent bottler; and our bottles, which we carefully mature and rigorously assess before release, are 100% flavour-driven: Cask strength, single cask, nonchill filtered, and bursting with flavour.

What is The Scotch Malt Whisky Society? The world’s largest whisky club, of course.

For 40 years we’ve been changing the whisky landscape by exclusively bottling our own expressions of single-cask, cask-strength whisky. That’s whisky extracted from a single cask (not blended or vatted with other casks), and bottled at the ABV it is in the cask (no watering down before bottling) — both of these ensure the most flavoursome whisky, in its most purest form: from cask to bottle. The club began in 1983 with an accountant and mountaineer experiencing his first whisky sip-iphany — it was a dram of cask-strength, single-cask whisky that changed how he felt about the spirit, and everything he ever knew about it.

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society is a whisky club, a community, a group flavour enthusiasts that seek full-flavoured whisky where the aromas transcend the norm and awaken the senses.