Long time readers will recall that our fair province is teeming with craft breweries, with new ones opening every week. While breweries have historically been...
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Local Winners
Summer is my favourite time of year. We can drink beer on patios. We can drink beer out on the dock. We can drink beer and still have the sun shining...
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Origin-al Recipe
Faithful readers may recall that my weekends are often spent making day trips to the veritable cornucopia of new craft breweries in our fair province, in what...
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Coul Your Jets
As part of my ongoing quest to visit all the new craft breweries popping up in Alberta, I made an overnight trip to Lethbridge this past weekend. Heading south...
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Roll Out The Barrel
Oak barrels and booze have a long and intimate relationship. Prior to the 3rd century CE, the storage vessel of choice for storage and transport of food and...
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Incredible Italians
In the spirit of research for this weekly column, I subscribe to a few of those wine-of-the-month clubs. I was giddy as a schoolgirl last week, when a mixed...
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Spirits of Italy
I was enjoying an evening at a fancy Italian restaurant with a large group last week, and I noticed several people ordering spirits instead of wine. Italian...
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Brother Can You Spare A Wine?
Brothers can get a lot done when they work together. Romulus and Remus founded the city of Rome. Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the airplane. Those...
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Viva Valpolicella
In the days of my callow youth, there were many glasses of plonk table wine consumed without a second thought, as Alberta was adrift in a desert bereft of fine...
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Plank Pose & Pints
The annual drunken bacchanalia of St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone for another year. I can only dimly recall how the days of my squandered youth were...