Author - Nick Jeffrey

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Your humble narrator woke up on February 6, thinking to myself that I and I had been in Babylon too long. Even if you are lacking the page-a-day calendar that...

Your humble narrator pens this column with a heavy heart, as this month marks the end of an era in Calgary’s beer history. After a few close calls and...

In the days of old, like you would see on reruns of Little House on the Prairie, brewing was considered women’s work. Yes, gentle reader, the lady of the...