In a 'local' bar one can usually find posters announcing noteworthy (whisky) events in the area.
Our 'bar crier' Konstantin maintains a list of those events on the Word Wide Whisky Events page.
And sometimes, a certified malt maniac or foreign correspondent is inspired to write a report about
such an event to share his experiences with other whisky lovers. We encourage such initiatives!
 
On this page you can find an overview of all festival reports that were published on Malt Maniacs.
Because I've started to rebuild the Malt Maniacs website from scratch in 2006 it's not possible to
link directly to many of the old reports, but you can find many in my Liquid Log on Malt Madness .
Many more can be found in the ADHD section of Malt Maniacs - just browse around for a bit...

November 2006 - Whiskyest New York, USA
Our New York reporter Louis Perlman has been reporting faithfully from WhiskyFest NY since the late 1990's.
Louis' latest report deals with circa three dozen recent releases from Benriach, Bruichladdich, Compass Box, Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, Longrow, Macallan and Springbank. Louis also shares his insights on a few bourbon whiskeys.

If you are a novice in the world of whisky, you may wonder what's so funny about whisky festivals.
Well, if you indeed ARE a novice, you must have taken a wrong turn on the electronic superhighway
because the Malt Madness section is designed for (relative) novices like yourself. Malt Maniacs is for
the real freaks who'd like nothing better than to wallow in whisky all day . That pretty much goes for
Serge valentin's WhiskyFun website too, by the way - and unlike MM & MM, it is updated every day!
 
This list will be updated with every new issue of Malt Maniacs - unless I forget, in which case it won't.
Especially if you have recently visited a whisky event that isn't featured on the pages of Malt Maniacs
yet I would like to heartily invite you to write an E-pistle (article) about it as a 'foreign correspondent'. 
Here's an overview of the reports of events on the 'World Wide Whisky Events' page so far;

May & June 2007 - Feis Ile 2007, Scotland, UK
Well, actually... None of the maniacs that visited Feis Ile on Islay this year bothered to submit a report.
From the tales I've heard from other maniacs it was roughly the same amount of fun as we had in 2005, so I've added a link to my report on the proceedings on Malt Madness. Oh, the fun we had... We drove around in the 'Drambulance', visited all distilleries on the island, had an exquisite dinner at Martine Nouet's place, enjoyed many 'open air' tasting sessions on the beaches of Islay, helped smoke some barley at the Port Ellen maltings - I could go on and on...

1997 to 2006 - Various Whisky Festivals & Trips
The whisky world is becoming a global village and some maniacs fly all across the world to enjoy (malt) whisky.
You can find dozens of reports on these trips and festivals in the 'frozen' A Decade of Heavy Dramming section of MM.
Due to technical reasons it's difficult to add direct links to festival reports, so you'll have to browse around for a bit to find
reports on a wide varierity of whisky festivals and tasting sessions. The old issues of Malt Maniacs and my Liquid Log also
contain extensive reports on trips to Scotland and even distillery visits in Ireland, Europe, the USA and Japan.

November 2006 - Whisky Live South Africa
We received no less than two reports from the first South-African edition of Whisky Live for MM#100.
The event was held on two different locations. Our South-African maniac Joe Barry reported on the Cape Town edition
before joining the team while foreign correspondent Larry Aaronson experienced the Johannesburg edition of the festival.

April 2007 - The Whisky Fair Limburg, Germany
With the big festivals growing more 'commercial' over the years, the Whisky Fair in Limburg (Germany) has grown into THE malt whisky event for the true connoisseur. While the regular festivals often focus on the recent releases that are peddled to 'Joe Public' (along with generous helpings of PR bogus), The Whisky Fair also offers visitors other opportunities.
How often do you get the chance to sample whiskies that were bottled two or three decades ago?

January 2007 - Victoria Whisky Festival, Canada
Most whisky festivals are organised by 'the industry', but in some cases there's a distinct 'amateur' influence as well. Fellow malt maniac Lawrence Graham has been involved in spreading the gospel in Canada. If this report from foreign correspondent Wendy Harker is anything to go by, the people behind the Victoria festival are doing a great job.
Let's just hope that the festival will keep its 'amateur' flavour in the future.

The length of the festival reports in the ADHD section varies from concise impressions to virtual transcripts.
Just keep in mind that some of these reports were written almost a decade ago. The atmosphere at a certain event could
have changed considerably since 'the good old days'. Needless to say, the same goes for the whiskies that were poured.

And all this is just the tip of the iceberg. As you can see on the Word Wide Whisky Events page there are dozens of big whisky events each year, all over the world - not to mention the thousands of smaller events with a more 'local' focus. And if you do find a whisky event you'd like to visit through these pages, why not return the favor to the global whisky community by submitting a report for Malt Maniacs?
Just drop us a message at the e-mail address at the bottom of this page.

September 2007 - Whisky Live Paris 2007, France
This could be the fist edition of Whisky Live Paris where none of the 'certified' malt maniacs had time to write a proper report. Well, we had a good excuse - we were all very busy with preparations for the Malt Maniacs Awards 2007.
Fortunately our Swiss foreign correspondent Patrick Brossard came to the rescue with a report of his own.

July 2007 - Classic Malts Cruise, Scotland, UK
Our Indian maniac Krishna was invited by Diageo to join a few dozen other whisky lovers on a sailing trip around the Outer Hebrides in the North-West of Scotland. Seems like an excellent gig!