Author - Nick Jeffrey

Spring has arrived in our fair province, and I have already enjoyed patio libations on a sunny weekend. The end of winter can mean many things, but the longer...

Chestermere and the Bow River have a long history.  Way back in the 1880s, the Canadian Pacific Railway wanted to irrigate the land between Calgary and...

Another St. Paddy’s Day has passed us by. The local drinking establishments saw the annual surge of drunken revellers dressed as leprechauns, and green...

The month of March supposedly contains the first day of spring, but you would never know it from the weather outside. This is the time of year that still feels...

What a time to be alive.  I recall the bleak days when Alberta craft breweries could be counted on the fingers of one hand, when macrobrews ruled the earth...

Faithful readers will recall that my favourite Canadian wine region is the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, prized for its big and bold red wines, thanks...

February is Rioja month in Alberta.  Yes, the whole month.  If living in a world where a wine region can claim their own month is wrong, then I don’t...

Saint Patrick’s Day is only a month away, which means the time to start preparing is now!  Rather than suffer through another crowded pub filled with...

The first month of the year is generally a write-off, with bleak and miserable weather, credit card bills from the holiday season finally arriving and...

The holiday season is now but a dim and fading memory, as the bleak months of January and February lie stretched out before us, mocking us with those gray...