Diary: The Craft Brewers Conference was in Indy, but I feared a relapse
Many months ago it dawned on me that the Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America event would be in Indianapolis this year. It officially concluded...
40 Years of Sidebars: Baltimore and a few wee drams in spring (1996)
My first visit to Baltimore, Maryland in March of 1996 didn't slot handily into the "40 Years in Beer" narrative, and so it has...
A writing update: the beer book is underway (also, other projects)
I've been unable to disengage entirely from the Reyes wholesale beverage conglomerate ("Monarch" in archaic Indiana beer dialect) and still receive an e-mail each...
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 76: A boy can dream – about...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 75: My shoes are filled with Volga mud (1999).
This installment was terribly hard to write. Kindly...
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 75: My shoes are filled with Volga...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 74: Down a rabbit hole, deep into the Belgian beer paradise (1998).
Insofar as ordinary Americans know to...
Archie’s axiom — or, beer’s ephemeral pass-through nature
Saturday evening we attended a performance of Urinetown: The Musical at Derby Dinner Playhouse in Clarksville, which is celebrating 50 years in existence; long...
40 Years of Sidebars: “The Budweiser Menace,” Fred Eckhardt’s 1997 column
Fred Eckhardt (1926-2015) was a homebrewer and writer, and is considered the dean of American beer writing. In February of 2025, Eckhardt was among...
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 74: Down a rabbit hole, deep into...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 73: All 42 pages of the 1999 Rich O’s beer list.
Situated just outside of the city...
“One Night with the Publican” beer tastings to be revived at Harbor & Hops...
An opportunity has arisen to revive something that was lost somewhere along the way, and this makes me happy.
Before explaining the impending comeback, the...
February update: 40 Years in Beer, Baylors in the Balkans, and a forthcoming book...
Regular readers know that my "day job" is at Food & Dining Magazine, where responsibilities have expanded over the years from writing a quarterly...