'Twas the Night Before Limiteds . . .

Monday, September 28 2009

Winexpert Western Canada Retailer Conference 2009

You may see a stranger, across a crowded room . . .

Saturday September 19th was a busy one for me: as soon as I set down my barbecue tongs, I snatched up my tasting glass and hurried from our store in Port Coquitlam to the fabulous River Rock resort hotel and casino in Richmond.

Posted by Tim AT 11:30PM

Thursday, September 24 2009

The Grill of My Dreams

Civilisation started when man mastered fire, and got much better when he discovered cold beer

Our retail store customer appreciation day was a smashing success! We grilled up burgers, smokies, European wieners (if they were really European, wouldn't they be European Viennas? I tried looking up 'wiener' on the internet to confirm this. My conclusion: don't look that word up on the internet) and one lonely veggie burger, which was for me, in solidarity with my Vegan peeps. Go soybeans!

Posted by Tim AT 5:45AM

Thursday, September 17 2009

Shameless Self-Promotion

Wanna see my picture on the cover, wanna buy five copies for my mother . . .

It's not the cover of the Rolling Stone, but it is a whole darn magazine, all-Tim, all-the-time.

The story of how I came to write for Winemaker Magazine is a funny one. A dozen years ago a very nice publisher sent my company (at the time I worked for one of Winexpert's competitors, doing much the same thing I do today) a copy of their brand-new Magazine, and asked if we'd be interested in distributing it in Canada to our retailers. The marketing honcho tossed it on my desk and asked if I thought it was a good bet.

Posted by Tim AT 8:23PM

Wednesday, September 16 2009

Meet the Tim

Look at that punim! Such a nice young man.

It's Bar-B-Q time! Winexpert's retail store is having it's annual customer appreciation day, with hot dogs, hamburgers (veggie burgers for my vegan friends!) and balloons for the kiddies (plus, helium for squeaky voices!) this Saturday, September 19th, from 11 am until 4 pm.

Posted by Tim AT 11:34PM

Monday, September 14 2009

Camera on CAMRA

What else could make a man this happy? Hair not precisely as shown.

When one is asked, 'How was the Great Canadian Beer Festival?', the proper response is, 'How would I know, sir? After all, I was there.' That is, if you really recall the events surrounding the festival, you were doing it wrong.

Posted by Tim AT 10:31PM

Wednesday, September 9 2009

Premeditated Journalism

We can't stop here: this is CAMRA country!

The great Doctor of Journalism, Hunter S Thompson, is a personal hero of mine. Not because of his personal conduct, or his persona as a substance-addled dangerously self-centered lunatic, but because when faced with a nation that no longer responded to solid journalism, he invented a new ethos, 'Gonzo journalism', where he injected himself into the story to try and make sense of a Rashomon-like cloud of contradictory and often self-serving viewpoints.

Posted by Tim AT 9:03PM