Author - Nick Jeffrey

Your intrepid liquor reporter keeps a special calendar on his desk just to keep track of the booze-related holidays each year. Things were simpler in bygone...

If you are reading this page, odds are good that you have at least a passing familiarity with beer. If you are a faithful reader, odds are even better that you...

Welcome, gentle reader, to the much-awaited first liquor column of the New Year. Let’s take a moment to reflect on the past year, and how the face of...

This month marks the 80th year since that failed social experiment known as Prohibition was repealed for our southern neighbours in the USA. Yes, gentle...

Your humble narrator has been noticing a lot of Bourbon commercials on TV recently, and so made a point of chatting up a cute little spirits rep at a recent...

No one in Alberta will soon forget the floods of this past June, the people of High River doubly so. It was an otherwise sunny day back on June 20, when the...

Faithful readers may recall that your intrepid liquor reporter has traditionally liked his whiskey the way he likes his women; over 30 years old, straight, and...

Your intrepid liquor reporter loves this time of year. No, gentle reader, it’s not that I’m partial to the cold weather. Rather, this time of year...

Your globetrotting liquor reporter vacationed in Europe this year, and I made certain to schedule visits to each city to coincide with important beer-related...

Boozing has always been just a little more civilized in la belle province. Back in the dark days of Prohibition, Quebec was the only province to vote a...