A dram full of fun at Heart Of The Run whisky festival

Kavalan from Taiwan was a popular choice with connoisseurs. (Left) Connoisseurs were given a tasting glass to bring around to the booths for sampling. (Below) Karl Too of Omakase Appreciate was a guest bartender at HOTR.

Finally, a decent whisky festival in Malaysia! Held at The Bee at Publika, Solaris Dutamas, Kuala Lumpur on March 8, the Heart Of The Run (HOTR) Whisky Festival was a welcome event for whisky lovers in the Klang Valley indeed.

While our neighbours down South have Whisky Live Singapore to look forward to every year, for some reason, there has never been a proper whisky festival of note in KL. HOTR turned out to be just the thing to kick things off. Held on a quiet Sunday afternoon in the pleasantly informal environment of The Bee, it turned out to be a relatively cosy and intimate affair with a good but manageable crowd of whisky lovers coming and going throughout the five-hour-long event.