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...
Tag - Food & Drink
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Brewing at Brewsters
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...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Campari in Canada
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...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Wintertime Blues
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...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
We Be Jammin’
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...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Bye Bye Brother
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...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Lady Liquors
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...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Enjoy It In The Can
Your intrepid liquor reporter was recently on one of those newfangled Internet dates with a young lady of Heineken-soluble morals. Close to the end of the...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Fun In Flatlandia
Your globetrotting liquor reporter visited the thriving metropolis of Saskatoon last week, and made sure to check out the local grog while I was there. Yes...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Beam Me Up Scotty
There has been a great shakeup in our domestic booze industry this month. Alberta Distillers, which has been producing fine spirits such as Alberta Premium Rye...