Author - Nick Jeffrey

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How Merlot Can You Go?

Thanks to this accursed pandemic, it has been nigh on 8 months now since I visited a wine bar for a night of enjoying different wines with delightful little...

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Carignan My Wayward Son

My once-robust selection in the basement wine cellar has been dwindling rapidly during these COVID times, with at-home imbibing replacing those many bottles of...

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Canadian Beer Day

Last week was the 2nd annual Canadian Beer Day.  Maybe this is not quite as auspicious a boozing event as Oktoberfest or Robbie Burns Day, but I am...

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35 Years And Counting….

An auspicious anniversary passed us by last month, nearly unnoticed due to the doom and gloom in the news.  That’s right gentle reader, this year marks...

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Common Crown

Exciting things happened a few weeks back at the Canadian Brewing Awards, which was held virtually this year due to the ongoing pandemic. For those not...

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Drawing a Blanc

Summer is coming to an end, and fall is just around the corner.  Darkness falls on our fair land earlier each day, and will soon put an end to my pandemic...

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Fahr Fahr Away

Beer is a lot like tennis.  The rising stars first need to win the provincial competitions in order to qualify for the national competitions, with those...

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Oktoberfest Obliterated

This pandemic just keeps getting worse.  First it took away all the toilet paper.  Then we had to endure the train wreck that was Tiger King...

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Better Red Than Dead

This pandemic may be the death of me.  Not because of any worries of infection, as I have been safely ensconced at home since March, without venturing out...

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International Beer Day

Well, this summer has been a bust.  Here we are staring down the barrel of the Labour Day weekend, back to school, and fall is just around the corner...


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