Author - Nick Jeffrey

ooking back four decades, I can dimly recall that 1985 was quite the year. Madonna and Huey Lewis were on the top of the charts. Cheers and the Golden Girls...

One of my regular drinking companions grew up in the former Eastern Bloc, coming of age in the final days of the Cold War, when booze from decadent capitalist...

Faithful readers may recall me waxing poetic about Chestermere’s own Township 24 Brewing, located at 100 Rainbow Road, who recently celebrated their seventh...

Looking to impress my holiday guests, I was digging through the dusty corners of the wine cellar for forgotten gems, and came across an old bottle of...

This is the month that December babies dread, with their birthdays overshadowed by the Xmas holiday, resulting in halfhearted combination birthday-Christmas...

I was looking for a dessert wine for those post-repast feasts that are so common during the holiday season, and my favourite wine expert at my local bottle...

As the holiday season approaches, I have been bulking up the contents of the wine cellar in anticipation of visits with family and friends, and in recognition...

The typical mobs of crazed bargain hunters did not swarm the shopping malls like a plague of locusts this year for Black Friday, due to the Amazons and Wal...

In the squandered days of my callow youth, our world-class rye and barley crops were used mainly as cattle feed, with nary a thought given to craft beer or...