I had high hopes for 2022, but they have already been dashed, thanks to the extra-contagious fifth wave. All my revelry has been solitary, locked away in...
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Happy Beer-thday
While I am happy to finally see the year 2021 in the rearview mirror, not much has changed in the early days of January. For the third year in a row, I spent...
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Top of the Chart-reuse
As the fourth wave fizzled out, I was looking forward to holiday tippling with friends and family, but the rapid onset of the fifth wave of the pandemic put an...
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Fugg-ettaboutit
This month marks the 150th anniversary of the Fuggle hop varietal, perhaps the most quintessential strain of hops in British ales. Much like grape...
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Yay for Meunier
This is the month that December babies dread, with their birthdays overshadowed by the Xmas holiday, resulting in halfhearted combination birthday-Christmas...
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Hungary and Thirsty
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...
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Make Merry With Sherry
As the holiday season approaches, I have been bulking up the contents of the wine cellar in anticipation of visits with fully vaccinated family and friends...
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Black Friday Lager
The typical mobs of crazed bargain hunters did not swarm the shopping malls this year for Black Friday, with the pandemic forcing them to move to online...
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Alberta Distillers
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...
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Time For Tempranillo
I was so looking forward to communal tippling with friends as the fourth wave fizzles out, only for Alberta to be hit with its first nasty winter storm. ...
