Apr. 5: Drammers Kyiv - Online Fundraiser Event......
To participate online, send a donation as generous as you can (but at least $50) directly to the Ukrainian charity Come Back Alive, and then forward your email receipt to us here. If you are joining remotely in the US, be sure to send us your mailing address to get your tasting kit.
To participate online, send a donation as generous as you can (but at least $50) directly to the Ukrainian charity Come Back Alive, and then forward your email receipt to us here. If you are joining remotely in the US, be sure to send us your mailing address to get your tasting kit.
To participate online, send a donation as generous as you can (but at least $50) directly to the Ukrainian charity Come Back Alive, and then forward your email receipt to us here. If you are joining remotely in the US, be sure to send us your mailing address to get your tasting kit.
Fellow Drammers!
We’re proud to invite you to join us for a special online fundraiser event on Saturday, the 5th of April, which will take place live from Ukraine. The head of Drammers Warsaw (Maks Stempniewicz) and Drammers President (Charlie Prince) will be traveling there in person to live stream with fellow whisky drinkers in Kyiv, working in coordination with the beverage director of a major whisky bar there. We have an incredible, all-star roster of industry friends joining online, who will each say a few words and introduce the whiskies we’ll be drinking at the event. No money for this event will “flow through” Drammers in any way, it all goes directly from you to charity. All costs associated with the event will be covered by the club, and everything we’re drinking will either be donated by the club or donated by our industry friends.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE: To participate online, send a donation as generous as you can (but at least $50) directly to the great Ukrainian charity “Come Back Alive”, where you can elect to have all proceeds spent exclusively on purchases for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other components of the Defense Forces. When you receive your confirmation email for the donation, forward it to us here. Please be sure to provide the mailing address where you want your tasting kit sent. Our club will cover the cost of shipping, etc. We will send you a confirmation email, if you do not get a confirmation email from us, please reach out.
START TIME: The event will take place from 5-8pm Kyiv time (which means it starts at 11am on the East Coast of the US, 8am on the West Coast, etc). These are the live event times, and the start and end of the online stream may vary a bit. We’ll also record the event to make it available to watch after the fact.
LINEUP: In alphabetical order…
Amrut. Either Master Distiller Ashok Chokalingam or US Importer Raj Sabharwal (or both) will be joining us to introduce Amrut Triparva.
Bardstown Bourbon Co. Vice President of Sales Nick Lewis will join us to introduce our club single barrel of their Origin bourbon (high rye, cask strength).
Compass Box. Head Whiskymaker James Saxon will join us to introduce our club Single Marrying Cask pick finished in an Ex-Cameronbridge cask.
FEW. Founder Paul Hletko will join us from Chicago to introduce a single barrel of his bourbon finished in an ex-Scotch cask (cask strength club pick).
High Wire Distillery. Either co-founder Scott Blackwell or Head Distiller Alexander Helms will join us to introduce a cask strength single barrel of their Jimmy Red (100% red corn) bourbon (club pick).
Proof & Wood. Founder Dave Schmier will join us to introduce the single barrel of cask strength bourbon we bottled for the 10 year anniversary of our club.
Sierra Norte. Founder and Master Distiller Douglas French will join us from Oaxaca, Mexico to introduce one of his ultra rare bottles of heritage green corn Mexican whiskey.
Westward. Master Distiller Miles Munroe will join us to introduce our Drammers single barrel of cask strength Westward American Single Malt.
We hope you can join us, and please help spread the word —we want to raise as much money as possible, so please feel free to forward to anyone you think might be interested. And if you will be in Ukraine and are interested in joining us in person, please let us know. Of course, please feel free to contact us with any questions. A huge thank you to Valery, Maks and Alex for all the work to make this event possible, and to all of our generous guest speakers for participating!
Cheers,
Drammers Club