Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 1: Three months that shook my world
Before: 1983, settling for swill in Florida.
After: selfie in Stockholm, 1985, using the Pentax camera’s handy timer.
Introduction to the 2025 Edition
1984 gets all the...
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 68: The advent of the ACBHOF (2024)...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 67: Yuletide atrocities, courtesy of the Butt-Head Bass Quartet (1994 – 2003).
Disclaimer: There aren’t any surviving photos...
40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty-Two: Vienna’s “Old Whisky Malt Waltz,” a precursor of...
Brauhaus Nussdorf on the day in question, 1991.
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty-One: Euro beer travel 1991, as history ends and begins again.
In...
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...
40 Years in Beer, Part Fourteen: Pilsner Urquell pilgrimage, locked gates, and a taxi...
The inaugural pilgrimage to the Pilsner Urquell brewery in 1987 was an epochal day even though we were denied entry. I’ve tasted thousands of...
I’m set to write a book about beer, or so this impending contract suggests
It is my pleasure to announce that a contract is impending with Bloomsbury Academic Inc. to write a book bearing the working title of...
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...
The Songs for a (P&u) Departure (3): Don’t go away mad, just go away
We’re told that Nov. 15 will be the last day for Pints&union in New Albany prior to the pub’s inglorious “Hail Mary” flight to...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty: Beer, zakuski, vodka and ice cream
Changing of the guard at Lenin’s Mausoleum.
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Nineteen: Moscow skyline in twilight, 1989.
Founding Soviet patriarch Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died...
Diary: The story of the Sladek (brewer/maltster) stone at Fairview Cemetery
We bought our house in downtown New Albany in 2003, and by the following spring casual neighborhood walks had become a regular weekend feature...