Author - Nick Jeffrey

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Santa Beer

December 25 is always a special day for your intrepid liquor reporter. No, gentle reader, it’s not because I somehow managed to keep my name off of...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Yuletide Cheer

It’s that time of year again. The Thanksgiving and Halloween holidays are long behind us, but Christmas, Hannukah, Kwaanza, and Festivus are just around...

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Thirsty Thanksgiving

Our American cousins enjoyed their Thanksgiving celebrations last week, a full six weeks after we Canucks. For historical reasons, Canada celebrates...

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Italians Do It Better

Your intrepid liquor reporter has been on a few of those new-fangled Internet dates lately, and it’s always nice to make a good first impression on the...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Beer in BC

No sooner did your globetrotting liquor reporter return from his extended sun-and-sin vacation in Hawaii, than it was off for a wedding in Kelowna to hit on...

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Hawaiian Beer

Faithful readers may recall that your globetrotting liquor reporter is sunning (and sinning) himself on the beach in Hawaii all month, making the cold and...

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Mai Tai Monday

Your globetrotting liquor reporter is penning this week’s column from the beach bar at a posh resort hotel in Hawaii, sipping rum from a fresh coconut...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Wine Clubs

Your intrepid liquor reporter has joined many different clubs over the years. There have been running clubs, coin collector clubs, the Stop Clubbing Baby Seals...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Make Mine a Keith’s

October is always a special time of year in the beer world. Our teutonic comrades in Munich have the fortnight-long bacchanalia known as Oktoberfest, with...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

French Toast or Belgian Waffles?

Attentive readers may have noticed that the world of beer is in the midst of a rising tsunami of craft beer, as the teeming millions throw off the shackles of...


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