All posts by Nick Jeffrey
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International Whisky Day
A very special day has just slipped by on the calendar. No, gentle reader, it’s not my two-week anniversary with that young lady with Pinot-soluble...
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You Don’t Have The Stones
Readers in the audience with an archeological bent may wonder how beer was made before the availability of metal brewing vessels. Students of history will...
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How Merlot Can You Go?
When wandering the aisles of a well-stocked wine merchant, the vast diversity of choices can leave even the most seasoned of wine drinkers in a...
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Ohmygosh for Ommegang
Your globetrotting liquor reporter is penning this week’s column from a hip and happening boutique hotel in midtown Manhattan. After flying into NYC for a...
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Spring into Spring
Your intrepid liquor reporter is hopeful that the warmer days of spring have finally arrived, and that Mother Nature is not planning to cruelly unleash...
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Alexander Keith Hops To It
Faithful readers of this column may recall that North America is experiencing a decade-long surge in the popularity of craft beer, as the unwashed masses...
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English Spirits
The Right Honourable Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady herself, shuffled off this mortal coil last week. Readers in the audience that were of school...
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California Dreamin’
Your globetrotting liquor reporter took a quick trip to California last month, and naturally, my thoughts turned quickly to booze. Flying into San Francisco, I...
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Vats In The Vatican
The eyes of the world were on Vatican City last month, as the big muckety-mucks of the Catholic Church elected a new pope. Your intrepid...
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Beware the Ales of March
The month of March always gets your humble narrator pining away for a Märzenbier. For those in the audience that do not speak German, that...
