Author - Nick Jeffrey

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Hard Seltzer For Hard Times

While battening down the hatches to prepare for the possibility of an extended stay at home in isolation, I made a resupply run to my friendly neighbourhood...

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Pink Boots & Beer

Last weekend marked International Women’s Day, which I observed by visiting a few of the dozen or so craft breweries in Calgary that were celebrating the...

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Side By Side

I drove up the QE2 to Edmonton last weekend to visit some friends, and made sure to make a few stops on the so-called Alberta Ale Trail to visit a few of the...

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Dinosaur Beer

I had out-of-town guests last week, so made the rounds of the usual tourist destinations.  One of our stops was the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller, so...

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Albeerta Advantage

Faithful readers may recall tales of me crying tears into my beer last year, with the announcement of the closure of Fort McMurray’s Wood Buffalo Brewing last...

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Up Your Alley

Change is afoot in the Alberta beer scene.  Faithful readers may recall that Calgary-based Wild Rose Brewery was acquired by megabrewer Sleeman Brewing last...

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Big Leagues For Banded Peak

Faithful readers may recall that Calgary-based Wild Rose Brewery was acquired by megabrewer Sleeman Brewing last summer, and that I had made a prediction that...

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Kom-Brew-Cha

Regular readers may recall me waxing poetic about Happy Belly Kombucha, a Chestermere-owned business that was one of the first entrants into the Kombucha...

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Chinese New Year

Kung Hei Fat Choi to you all!  For non-Chinese speakers in the audience, a loose translation is “Congratulations and be prosperous”.  January 25 marked the...

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Brazilian Wine

When we think about wines from South America, Malbec from Argentina and Carménère from Chile are the ones that immediately come to mind, but there is a wine...


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