Roger Baylor’s Career in Beer — The Résumé / CV 

Roger Baylor’s Career in Beer — The Résumé / CV 

Guinness “Perfect Pour” recognition, 2021. ROGER A. BAYLOR 1117 E. Spring St., New Albany, IN mayorbaylor@gmail.com (502) 468-9710 Any licensed establishment can list its beers, but not every establishment...
Beers with a Stoic: Spare me the modern speakeasy, will ya?

Beers with a Stoic: Spare me the modern speakeasy, will ya?

Allowing for the possible exception of Mick Jagger, we’re all destined to awaken one morning and find that we’ve pole-vaulted the invisible line in...
Beers with a Stoic: “Pardon the (fermentation) interruption”

Beers with a Stoic: “Pardon the (fermentation) interruption”

This column appeared under the “Hip Hops” rubric at Food & Dining Magazine on 23 January 2024. Head on over to F&D to read...
40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 41): Just a singer in a rock and roll band (1992)

40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 41): Just a singer in a rock...

Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Forty: Here’s why my tenure at Rich O’s BBQ began in 1992. You’ll recall that it was a warm...

Killer diller, or thinking about big band music and my father’s WWII musical reveries

As introduction, during my 1990s salad days at the Public House, I maintained a collection of swing, big band and jazz CDs behind the...
Beers with a Stoic: Why you needn’t waste your draft lines on cheap domestic lager

Beers with a Stoic: Why you needn’t waste your draft lines on cheap domestic...

Legend holds that in 1962 manager Casey Stengel assembled his New York Mets, to this very day still baseball’s worst-ever team, and asked them...
Beers with a Stoic: “Pardon the (fermentation) interruption”

Beers with a Stoic: “Falls City’s new taproom concessionaire will be (envelope please) Parlour...

This column appeared under the “Hip Hops” rubric at Food & Dining Magazine on 10 December 2023. Head on over to F&D to read...
Beers with a Stoic: “Pardon the (fermentation) interruption”

Beers with a Stoic: Stop “curating” beer. Start “thinking” beer.

Among the beer-related buzzwords that I’d like to see dumped from the top of the Burj Khalifa, then stomped, incinerated, drawn, quartered and dowsed...

My “40 Years in Beer” series is at a brief hiatus

My “40 Years in Beer” series has paused for a few weeks. Honestly, I’ve had little time to write lately; this will change once...
40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Four: In 1991, a smoky Bamberg sojourn with Happy Helmut

40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Four: In 1991, a smoky Bamberg sojourn with...

Stein hoisting at the final beer fest in Maximiliansplatz, 1991. Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty-Three: Herzlich Willkommen in der Weltbierkulturerbe-Stadt Bamberg. Photo credit. Prior to...