Damn straight Guinness is good for you
One of the beer world’s most famous advertising slogans is “Guinness is good for you,” which dates to the 1920s and is credited to...
40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 54: New Albanians on beer holiday in...
“Follow me” to the terminal in Tirana, 1994.
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 53: The birth of Samichlaus at Zürich’s classic Brauerei Hürlimann...
Speaking of epitaphs, a wonderful song called “Get Out and Stay Out”
“Get Out and Stay Out” was recorded for the 1979 Quadrophenia film soundtrack and wasn’t part of the original album in 1973. That’s Kenney...
Welcome to Nawbany, Episode 1: Let’s all fight for something, anything, whatever
The New Albany City Council’s current president is at-large councilman Jason Applegate, who on March 7 asked that “everyone keep the people of Ukraine...
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 60: Those glorious Belgian beer cafes (Euro...
Cantillon ambience ,1995.
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 59: Czech and Slovak beer & Hungarian Bull’s Blood wine (Euro Beer Travel 1995,...
Pint and bunions, or “A Cynic’s Word Book” for food and drink
.Version 1.0, 20 June 2025 (cover photo credit).
This effort was occasioned by the remorseless efficiency of a single sentence from an anonymous writer (trust...
Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 14: Meet the Finns — and hop a bus to...
Stockholm to St. Petersburg via Helsinki. 18 hours? In 1985?
Accompanying these recollections of my travel year 1985 are some of the songs I kept...
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 79: Stuck in a moment (and you...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 78: We just had to get to Merry Old England (1998).
“It was from the hunt for...
Tirana 2025: Bunk’Art 2 and a Skanderbeg Square protest
During our recent foray into the Balkans, one of the drivers we engaged succinctly remarked, “Albania was the North Korea of Europe.”
Albania emerged from...
40 Years in Beer, Part Nine: The point of know return
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Eight: The origins of a European travel (and beer) obsession.
I went to Europe for three months in 1985...