Author - Nick Jeffrey

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Put On The Red Light

Sting & The Police crooned eloquently in 1978 about falling in love with Roxanne, a lady working in the red light district of Paris.  I confess that I...

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Drawing a Blanc

The hot weather last week had me switching from red wines to chilled whites, kept in an ice bucket next to my patio chair so I could while away the weekend in...

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T-Bagging

Long time readers may recall me waxing poetic about the Reinheitsgebot, also known as the Bavarian Beer Purity Law of 1516, which decreed water, barley, and...

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End Of A Dry Century

Faithful readers may recall that I have often waxed poetic about the various failed attempts throughout North America to ban the demon liquor.  Our Yankee...

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Wings and Beer

As the global pandemic stretches into its fourth month, I have been cooped up in my home office, toiling away in isolation, without the friendly banter around...

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BC Bourbon

Every country has their own style of whisk(e)y.  Scotland has their single malts.  Ireland triple-distills in column stills.  Canada makes...

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Dreamy Martini

National Martini Day has just recently passed us by, taking place on June 19 every year.  In past years, I would usually get all gussied up in my fanciest...

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Summertime Blues

We are rapidly approaching the month of July, the first truly good month for outdoor boozing in Alberta.  June is sorta-ok for outdoor boozing, except for...

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Best Of Burgundy

One of the things I did to pass the time during the long months of quarantine was binge-watch the new Star Trek series, starring Captain Picard as a...

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No Groanies For Negronis

I spent the first week of June cautiously venturing outside the house, rediscovering simple pleasures like my first patio burger and beer in ten weeks...


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