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40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Seven: Andy Warhol, the Tatras,...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Six: One fine evening in Košice with Pilsner Urquell at the Zlatý Dukát.
While I was living in...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty-Two: Vienna’s “Old Whisky Malt Waltz,”...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty-One: Euro beer travel 1991, as history ends and begins again.
In early 1991 I deigned to meet with...
Miscellany
Sunday Summary for 12 September 2021, or, links to what I’ve...
I seem to have settled on biweekly writing updates, which serve the purpose well enough. The aim is unchanged: an every-other-Sunday compendium of links here...
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40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Nine: The radicalization of F.O.S.S.I.L.S. (1990-91)
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Eight: The founding of F.O.S.S.I.L.S. in 1990.
“You’re quite the polemicist. Have I told you why your Red Room...
New Albany still needs an autonomous independent business alliance
The following text was published at NA Confidential on 5 March 2019. The pandemic came to New Albany a year later, followed by endless Sherman...
Prioritizing drivers merely fails everyone else
If our city or any other continually cites favorable traffic accident statistics pertaining to cars ALONE as proof that streets are "safer," this of...
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...
Diary
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...
Diary: Let’s keep those mine shafts to a minimum in 2025
(Cover photo: Split before surgery.)
Twenty-three days ago I had hip replacement surgery (left side), and the recovery proceeds apace. Gradually strength is returning, and...
Diary: Upland’s acquisition of FCBC emblemizes a shift in food and drink in downtown...
The following is a stream of consciousness, so there may be errors. Let me know, and I’ll correct them.
So, Upland Brewing Co. has acquired...
Diary for 7 September 2021: Time to learn
I was awake early this morning, and started listening to WUOL 90.5, Louisville's classical station.
It took me back to the early 1980s, the period...
Beers with a Stoic: Check out THIS upscale luxury beer list
There's a restaurant in the area.
Salads and soups start at $13; appetizers at $20. Main courses are $34 - $39, and steaks $47 -...
Recipes for Chaos
40 Years in Beer, Part Eleven: The Fat Cats Deli &...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Ten: When friends actually did let friends drive drunk.
My consciousness was forever altered by Europe. The obsessions engendered...
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Diary: Cousteau the band (not the oceanographer)
Sometimes when you're engaged in a life-altering and transformational maelstrom, as I was a quarter-century ago, little bits and pieces of the soundtrack slip...
40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 89: A millennial upsurge with Cumberland Brews,...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 88: From Tokaj to Żywiec, and Achouffe to Poperinge (Travel 2002).
From 2000 through 2002/2003, a “third...
Remembering the Bastille Day “Bieres de Garde Dinner” at Bistro New Albany in June,...
Today is Bastille Day. Twenty years ago, I partnered with the embryonic Bistro New Albany to stage a Bastille Day "Bieres de Garde Dinner,"...
