God, I love whiskey.

That shouldn’t be surprising to readers of this blog, but I felt the need to point that out while packing for my trip to San Francisco, which will host its second annual Whiskyfest on Friday night.

Created by the good folks at Malt Advocate and now swinging into its second year with the sponsorship of the Wall Street Journal, Whiskyfest features more than 200 whiskies full of superlatives — some of the finest, the rarest, the most expensive in the world will be at the San Francisco Marriott on Friday night, along with many that are more accessible to people of my pay grade.

I attended the event last year and had a grand time (even though Jimmy Patrick was there, and now tries to avoid me), and I’m really looking forward to sampling some of the bottlings that will be poured this round, as well as stopping at a few of San Francisco’s bars to try out a few (dozen) of the drinks mixed in one of the best damn cocktail cities in the world.

If you’ll be at Whiskyfest, I hope to see you there, and if not…well, why not?

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