October is always a special time of year in the beer world. Our teutonic comrades in Munich have the fortnight-long bacchanalia known as Oktoberfest, with...
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French Toast or Belgian Waffles?
Attentive readers may have noticed that the world of beer is in the midst of a rising tsunami of craft beer, as the teeming millions throw off the shackles of...
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Oaked Beer
You may have witnessed one of those stuffy wine snobs taking a sip from a carefully swirled glass, then exclaiming to all within earshot that this particular...
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Canadian Craft Beer
Your globetrotting liquor reporter is penning this week’s column from the sunny shores of Vancouver Island, where I am enjoying a weekend junket to the...
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Maritime Moonshine
Faithful readers may recall that your intrepid liquor reporter is a transplanted Maritimer. Like many other eastern folk that arrive in Alberta, I wasted no...
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Lone Star Beer
Your globetrotting liquor reporter is penning this week’s column from a seedy hotel bar in Dallas, Texas. Everything is bigger in Texas; the boots, the...
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Pints and Half Pints
What does Winnipeg mean to you? Yes, gentle reader, this week’s column comes with an embedded quiz. The geography majors in the audience are always quick...
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Breakfast Wines
Your intrepid liquor reporter has been brunching up a storm lately. It seems that every other weekend, someone wants to get together on Sunday morning for...
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All Hail Edmonton Ale
Your intrepid liquor reporter has just returned from a fact-finding mission in our provincial capital, where a full week was spent exploring the local pubs...
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Milling About
Your intrepid liquor reporter has grown quite enamoured of the Mill Street Seasonal Sampler 6-packs, widely available at your local booze merchant, and can...
