All posts by Nick Jeffrey
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Our Home and Native Beer
A solemn and wise philosopher named Frank Zappa once remarked that you can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. ...
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Gin Is In
Alberta used to be a rather dreary province for distilled spirits. Sure, we had the Alberta Premium Rye Whisky your dad mixed with coke down...
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Dear Near Beer
Alcohol free beer is experiencing a surge in popularity that has not been seen since the dark days of Prohibition. An alcohol free beer goes...
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Alberta Advantage?
Last week was full of ups and down in the Alberta beer industry, taking me on a roller coaster of emotions, from giddy highs to...
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Beer Store Blues
Our fair province of Alberta is the envy of the nation when it comes to the availability of crafty beers. Seasoned boozers may recall the...
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Township 24
Faithful readers may recall me waxing poetic about Chestermere’s own Township 24 Brewing, located at 100 Rainbow Road, right beside the dental office. Township 24...
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It’s A Dog’s Life in Boston
Faithful readers may have recall that the three largest brewers in Canada are all owned by foreign conglomerates, as the drinks industry continues consolidating towards...
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23 Years of Wild Rose Beers
Calgary’s Wild Rose Brewery has made frequent appearances in this column over the years, all the way back to the dawn of the new millennium....
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Mayday! Mayday!
May is a wild and crazy month for the tipplers of the world, and I have been making the most of it. In local news,...
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Sipping Santorini
The Greek empire of antiquity helped to spread viticulture across the known world, to the neighbouring Romans, and as far away as Persia. Winemaking in...
