Your intrepid liquor reporter is accustomed to a great many things. The sun rises in the east every morning. Alberta has one final snowstorm every May long...
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Roving Days Are Done
Your intrepid liquor reporter made a trip into Calgary last week to see perennial drinking band The Irish Rovers on their 50th anniversary tour of western...
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Libations for Lent
The French call it Mardi Gras, made most famous by the bacchanal in New Orleans each February. The English call it Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday, depending on...
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Full Brazilian
Your humble narrator was wracking his brain earlier this month, trying to come up with a sufficiently romantic scheme to impress my lady friend on...
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Italian Beer
When boozers think of Italy, wine is generally the first thing to come to mind. Indeed, the Italian love for wine goes all the way back to the Roman empire...
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Beer and Chocolate
In the carefree days of my callow youth, your intrepid liquor reporter was perfectly content to munch on chicken wings while chugging a Molson Dry straight...
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Pasties and Pastis
Your globetrotting liquor reporter vacationed in Gay Paree this year, and made sure to imbibe all the local tipples. Speaking of tipples, the topless revue at...
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Fine Argentine Wine
The wines of Argentina seem to occupy more shelf space every time I visit my friendly neighbourhood booze merchant, and for good reason indeed. Argentina is...
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Sultry Sangiovese
Your intrepid liquor reporter was out wooing a young lady on one of those newfangled Internet dates, and was faced with that dreaded date-night challenge of...
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Sweet Sipping Cider
Your globetrotting liquor reporter was recently on his annual tour of the Okanagan Valley, that heavenly little spot of Canadian wine country that is close...