HerringFest! Japanese Grain Whisky! Restaurant Reviews (Sort Of)! And More!

Some of the HerringFest crowd, with Jefferson’s Trey Zoeller and me holding the herring. (Photo by Christine Sachs… I think)

It’s been an open secret for a while, but HerringFest — presented by Philip Duff, hosted by yours truly — is the hottest ticket in town if you like spending several hours wolfing down fresh herring filets and washing it down with a mind-boggling assortment of cocktails and straight liquor. An annual event (when there’s not a pandemic shutting things down), we’ve gotten a veritable who’s-who of the booze world to show up to my door. Our coup this time around was to get Trey Zoeller, founder of Jefferson’s Bourbon and a newly-inducted member of the Bourbon Hall Of Fame, to stop by to taste us on the latest Jefferson’s expression. We’d been drinking and eating pungent fish for five hours by that point, but professionals that we are, we still had enough of our taste buds working to get a good sense of it — and it’s delicious. Want to find out more? As well as reading about other stuff that my liver has processed of late? Check it out in the latest What’s Tony Drinking?, brought to you as always by the good folks at Alcohol Professor. Link is -> HERE <-.

If, on the other hand, you just want to cut to the chase and find out which new whisky you should get your mitts on, there’s something here for you too! I don’t drink grain whisky too often, but when I do, I try to make it Nikka’s Coffey Grain. Well, the folks at Nikka have one-upped themselves with a limited edition grain whisky that’s perfectly delicious. What is grain whisky, you might ask? What’s the story with Nikka? How limited an edition is this, anyway? Find out all the deets in my latest Whisk(e)y Of The Week, courtesy of Forbes. Link is -> HERE <-.