Whisky Cask Blending Class at Burwood Distillery

A cask blending class at Burwood Distillery in Calgary that moves from the production floor to a bottle of your own. It opens with a tour of the distillery, following the spirit through each stage of an intricate process: fermentation first, then distillation, then the slow work of aging in barrel. A guided tasting comes next, pouring rare whiskies drawn from the distillery's own rickhouse, the warehouse where the casks sit and time does the rest. The blending room is where the class really happens — you work out the proportions yourself, chase the balance that suits your palate and bottle the result. No prior knowledge is expected; the entire point of the format is to take a novice and turn them into an artisan over the course of an afternoon. You leave with the bespoke bottle you built, a tangible piece of your own personal blend.