Whisky Indy Love Festival 2025
Schedule
Fri, 12 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 at 08:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Assembly Rooms | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN
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Indie bottlers are bloody fantastic and for the fourth year we get the most special bunch of people and finest spirits this little blue green planet has to offer all in the same place for you. The venue has changed due to circumstances beyond our control however fear not it allows us to upgrade, how would you like to be right in the heart of Newcastle in a prestigious building with even more space/time to enjoy amazing whiskies and people? We are now at The Assembly Rooms!!! The venue boosts a lovely bar, an outstanding main hall and additional rooms I hope you agree overall a significant step forward for the festival.
Last year was perhaps the best yet so can we beat 2024? Want to taste some of the finest spirits in the World, take your senses on a wonderful journey as this is seriously great whisky and spot on people in a perfect brewery environment, you would be hard pushed to beat this festival anywhere in the World. It may not be the cheapest festival in the World but it is worth it.
Some of the finest Indie bottlers of spirits are coming to the festival all under one roof for 2 days and a ticket lets you try whatever you like from their table (and good craic perhaps even under the table drams :)) Here is the list of exhibitors:
Claxtons - Principal Festival Sponsor
Spiritfilled
North Star
Top Whiskies - Festival Sponsor
Blackadder
Fib Whisky
The Heart Cut - e-Brochure Sponsor
Little Brown Dog
Woodrow's of Edinburgh
Gleann Mor
Adelphi/Ardnamurchan Distillery
Artful Dodger
Lady of the Glen/Hannah
Cadenhead's
James Eadie
Scotch Whisky Auctions
Dram Mor
Stavaig Spirits - Lanyard sponsor
I think you will agree that is a heck of a good line up so far, there are few festivals in the World where you ever get this kind of line up of Indies. Please remember this is subject to additions and change.
Indie/Indy bottlers is where its at, producing outstanding often single cask, cask strength stunning whisky (and other spirits) and frankly the value is far better than you would expect. These are not the whiskies you find sitting on supermarket shelves, all the distilleries you may have heard of just a whole lot more than your average core range. You get to meet and try whiskies from perhaps the best Indies on the planet (~30 of them) your ticket gets you entry, an exclusive festival Glencairn nosing glass, a bottle of water, exclusive lanyard and try as many of the whiskies as you like (be careful as its high octane stuff so please drink responsibly).
FYI: What is an independent whisky bottler? Independent whisky bottlers buy casks of whisky from distilleries and bottle them under their own label. They tend to focus on the flavour of the whisky by managing the maturation in the cask, how long to mature it for, and often using cask finishes to add additional layers of flavour. Another thing is they tend to offer their whisky un-chill-filtered and higher if not original cask strength so big stuff. Also arguably they offer some of the best value and bang for buck. Some of the bottlers will also be offering often very hard to find bottles there on their stand for you to try and buy straight off them.
Tickets from as little as £20 for a taster session. Also the venue could not be better and only 5 mins walk from Newcastle Central Rail station and metro.
Tickets on sale here https://www.trybooking.com/uk/EGVW
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Where is it happening?
Assembly Rooms, Fenkle Street,Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
