Wines have been sealed with cork for centuries, and cork taint has been a problem for most of that time. If you have ever popped the cork on a bottle of wine...
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Bye Bye Bacardi
Bottles of Bacardi can be found across our great nation, from the hipster bars serving $17 craft cocktails, to the neighbourhood pub where everybody knows your...
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Bubbly Bevies
Sparkling wines have long been associated with special occasions. Birthdays? Check. Weddings? Most definitely. Divorce parties? Even more so. Novice boozers...
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Niagara vs Okanagan
The history of wine in Canada boasts hundreds of years of history. That may sound like a lot, until you compare it to the old-world countries of Italy, France...
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Whiskey and Bagpipes
Like many Canadians, I can claim some small portion of Scottish ancestry. While I may not boast Groundskeeper Willie levels of Scottish-ness, I do regularly...
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Chestermere Eats & Drinks
Plato said it 2500 years ago. Another hundred years before Plato, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus said the same thing. Countless others have expressed the...
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Airport Beer
The holiday season has come to an end, and life has returned to a semblance of normalcy. The days of eating shortbread cookies and drinking mulled wine before...
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New Beer For The New Year
Well welcome folks, to the opening days of the year 2018. The past year has been a busy one for the Alberta beer industry, with dozens of new breweries coming...
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Spirits of Alberta
Longtime readers may recall that I have been waxing poetic about the endless stream of new craft breweries popping up in our fair province. For those who are...
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Seasonal Cheers and Beers
The festive drinking season is upon us, and I always make the most of the annual cornucopia of seasonal beers! It all begins in September, when the shelves of...