Author - Nick Jeffrey

Wines have been sealed with cork for centuries, and cork taint has been a problem for most of that time. If you have ever popped the cork on a bottle of wine...

Bottles of Bacardi can be found across our great nation, from the hipster bars serving $17 craft cocktails, to the neighbourhood pub where everybody knows your...

Sparkling wines have long been associated with special occasions. Birthdays? Check. Weddings? Most definitely. Divorce parties? Even more so. Novice boozers...

The history of wine in Canada boasts hundreds of years of history. That may sound like a lot, until you compare it to the old-world countries of Italy, France...

Like many Canadians, I can claim some small portion of Scottish ancestry. While I may not boast Groundskeeper Willie levels of Scottish-ness, I do regularly...

Plato said it 2500 years ago. Another hundred years before Plato, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus said the same thing. Countless others have expressed the...

The holiday season has come to an end, and life has returned to a semblance of normalcy. The days of eating shortbread cookies and drinking mulled wine before...

Well welcome folks, to the opening days of the year 2018. The past year has been a busy one for the Alberta beer industry, with dozens of new breweries coming...

Longtime readers may recall that I have been waxing poetic about the endless stream of new craft breweries popping up in our fair province. For those who are...

The festive drinking season is upon us, and I always make the most of the annual cornucopia of seasonal beers! It all begins in September, when the shelves of...