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Probably 95% of comments here are spam, and for the past couple of years I’ve kept them corralled until they could be rejected. The...
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...
Business of Better Beer: Draft beer selections benefit from thoughtful guiding principles
No photos or videos, just words.
With the passing of Common Haus Hall in Jeffersonville, where I served for the past year as beer director,...
Roger’s year in music, 2025
Yes, this is 2026, and I’m supposed to be recapping my year in music in 2025. To get there, we must begin by stumbling...
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: Your luxury beer “list” reeks, so stop pretending it doesn’t
Consider the following a composite.
One thing I’ve always tried to do is advocate for my segment.
It means nothing negative to me if an everyday...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Three: Beery Copenhagen days and Oktoberfest nights in Munich
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Two: A placid traditional Danish lunch in Copenhagen, 1989.
Among my proudest moments as an American abroad was the...
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...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Two: A placid traditional Danish lunch in Copenhagen, 1989
Copenhagen, Denmark (1989).
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-One: Those legendary working beers with the FDJ in the GDR.
There was a faint glow, and...
Justin Brown is my preferred candidate for Floyd Circuit Court Judge
“All politics is local.”
So the legendary Boston ward heeler Tip O’Neill said, and in the main, he was right.
However, in recent years those big,...