Author - Nick Jeffrey

Another St. Paddy’s Day has passed us by. The local drinking establishments saw the annual surge of drunken revellers dressed as leprechauns, and green...

The month of March supposedly contains the first day of spring, but you would never know it from the weather outside. This is the time of year that still feels...

What a time to be alive.  I recall the bleak days when Alberta craft breweries could be counted on the fingers of one hand, when macrobrews ruled the earth...

Faithful readers will recall that my favourite Canadian wine region is the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, prized for its big and bold red wines, thanks...

February is Rioja month in Alberta.  Yes, the whole month.  If living in a world where a wine region can claim their own month is wrong, then I don’t...

Saint Patrick’s Day is only a month away, which means the time to start preparing is now!  Rather than suffer through another crowded pub filled with...

The first month of the year is generally a write-off, with bleak and miserable weather, credit card bills from the holiday season finally arriving and...

The holiday season is now but a dim and fading memory, as the bleak months of January and February lie stretched out before us, mocking us with those gray...

We owe a lot to the ancient Etruscan civilization, a wealthy and powerful nation-state that existed from 900BCE to 100BCE.  The Etruscans were eventually...

Japan is home to one of the ancient civilizations of the world, and like any of the great empires of history, has a long relationship with booze. Perhaps the...