This past weekend featured the eighth annual Calgary BeerFest. Naturally, your intrepid liquor columnist was all over that like a… well… like a...
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Batty for Barolo
Your intrepid liquor reporter was out on one of those newfangled Internet dates last week, and ended up at the Vin Room in Calgary’s trendy Mission...
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Cinco de Mayo
May is shaping up to be an exciting month. The snow has all melted, and the lake will soon be seeing recreational boaters and windsurfers galore. While not...
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Waterloo!
Waterloo – promise to love you forever more. Waterloo – couldn’t escape if I wanted to. No, gentle reader, this week’s column will not be about the...
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Pints in Portland
Your globetrotting liquor reporter has just returned from a junket along the Pacific Northwest and what a time he had! It all started with a business trip to...
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New Beer’s Eve
Our Yankee cousins south of the 49th parallel have reason to celebrate this month. Yes, gentle reader, April 7 marked the festival of New Beer’s Eve, so...
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Spring into Spring
Your intrepid liquor reporter is writing this column on the first day of spring. The sun is shining, and I might even pop down to the local pub to see if they...
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Good Old Saint Paddy
Your intrepid liquor reporter will need a full year to recover from the gallons of green beer that were consumed during a 3-day pub crawl over the St...
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More beer than you can drink in a week
With spring nearly here, your intrepid liquor reporter has been waiting with bated breath for the sampling and tasting season to get underway. The winter...
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Life Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine
If there’s one thing your intrepid liquor reporter can be called in February, it would be predictable. That’s right gentle reader, February marks...