Master Distiller and Maltster Todd Leopold to Headline 2025 Canada Whisky Symposium

Master Distiller and Malster Todd Leopold, partner of the award-winning, Denver-based Leopold Bros. Distillery & Malthouse, will give keynote address at second annual event, this February in Calgary

Leopold is a three-time James Beard Award semi-finalist for Outstanding Wine, Spirits or Beer Producer, and a 29-year veteran of the brewing and distilling industries. He holds a Diploma in Brewing and Malting Science from the Siebel Institute, and attended the Doemens Brewer’s Academy in Germany. In addition to operating one of the largest floor malting operations in the world at Leopold Bros. Distillery & Malthouse in Denver, he revived the Three Chamber Still, a special and once-popular still used by American and Canadian distillers to produce whiskies and brandies before Prohibition. Leopold Bros. Distillery & Malthouse was founded in 1999 and was honoured as the 2015 Distillery of the Year by the American Distilling Institute and has won many awards for its whiskies and other spirits.