Tag - Food & Drink

Old-school wine snobs will tell you that the only proper way to bottle wine is with a cork closure, and look down their noses at these newfangled screw cap...

The world is experiencing a Gin renaissance, and the charge is being led by the small artisanal distilleries. Gin has a long and sordid history, starting with...

Some things just don’t improve as the years go by. Star Wars prequels and my waistline are two examples that immediately come to mind, but many others...

The world is experiencing a Gin renaissance, and the charge is being led by the small artisanal distilleries. Gin has a long and sordid history, starting with...

Your humble narrator has been known to poke fun at our neighbours to the south for that failed social experiment called Prohibition back in the 1920’s. A...

Your humble narrator was sipping a frosty pint of Grasshopper last week, when a shudder went down my spine, almost like a million beer drinkers suddenly cried...

There was a momentus occasion in beer culture last week, and your humble narrator certainly made the most of it. Yes gentle reader, August 7 was the fourth...

Your humble narrator has been revelling in the warm days of summer, and enjoying all the licentiousness that comes with this time of year. BBQs and garden...

The dog days of summer have finally arrived. After a bleak and rainy spring, the hot and sunny days at the beach are now a daily pastime, followed by fun and...

As part of keeping up-to-speed on booze culture, your intrepid liquor reporter must perform frequent reconnaissance at seedy watering holes, keggers, raging...