The first signs of spring always gets your intrepid liquor reporter all twitterpated with the seasonal norms of exposed flesh, libidinous ladies, and outdoor...
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Under The Tuscan Sun
Your loquacious lounge lizard of a liquor reporter recently went on one of those Internet dates with a hot-blooded Italian lady, so I made sure to make a good...
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Heavenly Hogsheads
Our literary history is rich with hogsheads. No, gentle reader, I’m not talking about the impaled sow’s head from Lord Of The Flies that...
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State of the Nation
StatsCan released a report last week that described just how much booze is being consumed across our fair land, and Alberta is on top! Yes, gentle reader, I...
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Liquor Laws Loosening
As Bob Dylan so eloquently crooned back in 1964, the times they are a-changin’. Your humble narrator remembers the dark days of government-run liquor...
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Rock Out With Your Bock Out
Your intrepid liquor reporter was feeling particularly pious this past March 19. No, gentle reader, not because that is the traditional feast day of Saint...
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Brewing at Brewsters
Longtime readers may recall your humble narrator waxing poetic about the Brewsters chain of brew pubs a few times over the years. Brewsters was started by two...
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Campari in Canada
Anyone who has enjoyed a big meal in an Italian restaurant will be familiar with the idea of an apéritif, that small glass of booze taken before the meal to...
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Death Of A Hipster
It was like millions of mustachioed dudes in skinny jeans and thick rimmed glasses cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. No gentle reader, I am not...
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Wintertime Blues
Your globetrotting liquor reporter decided that he had endured quite enough of the deep freeze that chilled our fair province in early March, so a last-minute...