Coming Soon…

Here it is, the day you look forward to for 30 or 31 days (or 28 or occasionally 29): the day I tell you what might be coming up on the blog over the next month . Contain your excitement. As you may have noticed, I’ve of late been doing a lot of themed weeks of whisky reviews (in April I did a Loch Lomond week, a Springbank week, a highlands distilleries week and a sherry cask week). I have stolen this idea from, by which I mean I have been inspired by Michael Kravitz of Diving for Pearls who has been doing wonderful deep dives into distilleries—he currently has a Port Charlotte series going on. You should really read him regularly if you want good whisky reviews and good writing on whisky. But what the hell am I doing promoting the competition? I should be telling you what you can expect to find here in May.

Well, you’ll never believe it but there’ll be whisky reviews, restaurant takeout reviews and recipes. As always I invite you to nominate whiskies you’re more interested in to the shortlist. I should warn you that I’ll almost certainly do themed weeks again—so if you pick one of three listed from a distillery you’re essentially voting for a week’s worth of that distillery.

On the food front there’ll be some barbecue to start the month and we’ll probably also finally get back to Peninsula in Minneapolis as I’ve been threatening for a while now. There’s not much else planned or projected. On the recipes front, if you follow me on Twitter you should look soon for the usual monthly poll to choose the order of the month’s recipes. And, oh yes, there’ll be a couple more reports on immigrant groceries in the Twin Cities metro.

Okay, here’s the long list of potential whisky reviews. Have at it!