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Pink Guava Gose or Fuller’s ESB? Hmm, let me see …
Just the other day I saw a Twitter tout heralding the forthcoming release of a beer called Pink Guava Gose (brewery unknown), which I...
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Technically Challenged
Our weekly editorial meme: “To the dimmer go the spoils”
Well, you KNOW the way they've always been. Vultures hunt by instinct, not college degrees.
Miscellany
Our forthcoming war of the non-motorized watercraft launch areas
Local Democratic Party stalwarts continue to express puzzlement. Why do "their" city officials oppose the removal of an outmoded low-head dam on Silver Creek,...
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40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 49: Bluegrass Brewing Co. — an ideal...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 48: F.O.S.S.I.L.S. newsletter antics, Typo’s Brewpub, and True Beer Freedom.
Author's note: No images this time, just...
Menu Items: Babette’s Feast, the film (1987): “Once good taste is learned, there is...
Throughout the world sounds one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me the chance to do my very best.
Your faithful correspondent...
Five Way Vegetarian Cincinnati Chili, because that’s the way I Iike it
This recipe is from my mother’s file, via her next-door-neighbors (the Mulloys), and revised extensively. Kidney beans take the place of the ground beef,...
The famous mishap in Madrid, November, 1989
This column from "On the Avenues" originally was published at NA Confidential on November 14, 2019. Kindly note that nothing came of my plan...
Diary
The Weekly Wad lives on in the minds of malcontents everywhere
I've expended quite a few words to explain why I try to keep high school memories at arm’s length. At the same time, formative...
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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...
Diary: Jerry Sandusky is not allowed to rewrite his heinous narrative
I’ve been thinking about Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State football coach and convicted serial child molester. Sandusky is in prison, and his earliest...
ON THE AVENUES: A design for life
Originally written in 2016, lightly edited here.
Throughout my decidedly mediocre high school basketball career, members of the coaching staff often administered what they surely...
Diary for 19 September 2021: Your shrinking attention spans annoy me
If there is any one common denominator to help explain the ever bottoming nadir of daily life in the industrialized (and desperately sick) world,...
Recipes for Chaos
Beers with a Stoic: On Hop Atomica, brewery taproom expectations and...
Long ago and faraway, it was explained to me — again and again — that responsible (read: profit-seeking) restaurants and bars simply could not...
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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 72: Mitch Steele attends a F.O.S.S.I.L.S. meeting...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 71: A-B, Molotov cocktails, Mitch Steele and me (G.A.B.F., 1997 & 1998).
On November 8, 1998, something...
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 71: A-B, Molotov cocktails, Mitch Steele and...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 70: Made-for-megabrewing stylelessness at the G.A.B.F. in 1997.
Quite apart from the attractions built into the Great...
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 70: Made-for-megabrewing stylelessness at the G.A.B.F. in...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 69: Spring Break in 1997 with the classic Central European brewers.
Apparently 1997 was a stable year...
