Tom W Clarke Bruce: Misadventures From A Lap Around Australia Have you ever wondered what it would be like to stop being a grown up for a bit? Why the gap year is reserved for those fresh out of high school, wasted on those yet to be afflicted by the mundane horrors of middle management and health insurance? Tom W Clarke can relate. So in 2023, he and his wife packed up their life in Melbourne and their four-year-old and jammed into a campervan for a year of adventure and silliness. An extraordinary lap around Australia ensued. Out on the road and out of their depth, they laughed through ..read more

It’s become an annual tradition at W&A to open up the cellar for sales in the two week lead up to Christmas and this year is no exception! Buy something special to gift or share on with Santa on Christmas eve. Julian will be on hand Tuesday to Friday between 12pm and 4pm to help you navigate the list. We recommend visiting early to ensure you receive the best service possible. Free Christmas cards and gift cards are available upon request, and gifting bottle bags can be purchased for $3 each. View the Cellar List (Part 1)   ..read more

The best of the best as tasted by our panel of spirits judges is here! Yes it’s that time of year when we roll up our sleeves and get ready to serve the masses for Christmas parties and jolly drams, but also a wonderful time to reflect – and polish of those exquisite bottles that may have been forgotten! Taking out the top gong is a single cask of Ben Nevis selected by Alembic Classic in Germany. Jump online and you might find a few bottles still remain in German based outlets at a fair price of EUR550. This year’s list highlights again the continuing quality from the Scotch Malt Whisky S ..read more

Hello everyone! Our office team will be on holidays in Japan from Friday 8th September to Sunday 1st October 2023. During this time the online shop will offer click & collect only, with the shipping option resuming on Monday 2nd October 2023. The on site bottle shop at Whisky & Alement will remain open 7 days from 4pm. For any enquiries, please contact Lachie or Shane during office hours of Tuesday between 10am and 3pm, and Thursday between 1pm and 5pm on 03 9654 1284. Thank you for your patience while we take a break, Brooke & Julian ..read more

This June we’re celebrating local whisky (and milk!) producers with a Victorian-centric list of 15 whisky distilleries and two milk punches by the talented Lachlan Watt! Explore micro breweries producing only a cask of whisky a year, to the big players of Victoria, Gospel and Starward who continue to both produce excellent quality product and continuously innovate. We invite you to take a seat at the bar and enjoy a dram of something local.   ..read more

Whisky & Alement brings you the Victorian Whisky Festival for Melbourne Food & Wine Festival.   Victoria is now home to more than 15 whisky distilleries producing everything from easy-going mixing whiskies to limited-edition craft single malts. The Victorian Whisky Fair is an opportunity for whisky-lovers to experience these amazing spirits and meet producters for the first time in a single casual, fun event at Paradise Alley. Ticket price includes all whisky samples and food by Paradise Alley. Victorian beers, wines, rare Australian whiskies and cocktails by Whisky & Alement ..read more

Every week, the team at Whisky and Alement sits down to taste the ten or more new bottles being added to the bar. The list is ever evolving, ever-changing as at least whiskies and other spirits are finished and more added to the menu to replace them weekly. With well over 500 new bottles added to the bar throughout the year, it can be hard to keep track of favourites! In 2017 an in-house scoring system was introduced to help collate our favourite spirits of the week. We’ve only once previously released a list of the top rated spirits (2019) when we decided that our favourites should be celebra ..read more

WHISKY FLIGHT “Rockin’ Drams and Toe Tappin’ Tunes”   This week we look through one of the earliest forms of Rock ‘N’ Roll, Rockabilly. Rockabilly comes about as a fusion of country and blues, beefed up with overdrive guitars and an up-tempo walking bass line. Initially popularised by artists like Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, and Little Richard, Rockabilly has influenced many modern styles like punk, as well as sub-genres of rockabilly like psychobilly and punkabilly. So lace up your blue suede shoes and boogie til’ the sun comes up.   SMWS 55.63 “Packed with intensity ..read more

WHISKY FLIGHT “Well ‘ello, ‘ello, ELO!” Time to shed some light on these electrifying whiskies with the Electric Light Orchestra!   It was recently made clear to us that, while everyone may unconsciously know ELO, not everyone knows “ELO”. Let us change this. The Electric Light Orchestra were a group that wanted to make modern rock and pop music, but instead of using modern musical instruments as the focus, the focus would be placed on orchestral instruments such as the violin, cello, woodwind and horns. To compliment this, I have paired some of my favourite tracks to classic whisky style ..read more

WHISKY FLIGHT “Fine Funkadelics!” A pairing of Funkadelic whisky and fine George Clinton tunes!   This weeks flight is inspired by some of my favourite George Clinton tracks. George Clinton, one of the main innovators of funk music, has inspired my understanding of music, and considering how my love of wild and “Funkadelic” whisky has evolved over the last 10 years, I thought it would be a perfect time to connect the two. While I enjoy the beautifully balanced whiskies, where spirit character stands up to cask character in an elegant pas de deux, I love feeling the expression an ..read more