Beers with a Stoic: Shouldn’t the local beer vanguard be respecting beer?

At the end of the day, facts are facts. 2 + 2 = 4. Dublin IS the capital of Ireland, not Tipperary. Green beer,...

40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 43): Facing the music at Rich O’s...

 Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 42): Barr built the bar, and the Guinness began pouring. Music? That's right, music. After all, this series is...

40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 42): Barr built the bar, and the...

Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 41): Just a singer in a rock and roll band (1992). And so it came to pass...

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...

Beers with a Stoic: Going away, coming back, and more about what defines a...

Mr. Big: Do you want the good news or the bad news? Me: I haven’t seen the sun for two weeks, so how about the...

Roger Baylor’s Career in Beer — The Résumé / CV 

ROGER A. BAYLOR 1117 E. Spring St., New Albany, IN mayorbaylor@gmail.com (502) 468-9710 Any licensed establishment can list its beers, but not every establishment organizes its beer offerings...

Beers with a Stoic: Spare me the modern speakeasy, will ya?

Allowing for the possible exception of Mick Jagger, we’re all destined to awaken one morning and find that we’ve pole-vaulted the invisible line in...

Beers with a Stoic: “Pardon the (fermentation) interruption”

This column appeared under the "Hip Hops" rubric at Food & Dining Magazine on 23 January 2024. Head on over to F&D to read...

40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 41): Just a singer in a rock...

Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Forty: Here’s why my tenure at Rich O’s BBQ began in 1992. You’ll recall that it was a warm...

Beers with a Stoic: Why you needn’t waste your draft lines on cheap domestic...

Legend holds that in 1962 manager Casey Stengel assembled his New York Mets, to this very day still baseball's worst-ever team, and asked them...

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Beers with a Stoic: Wouldn’t it be less expensive NOT to brew house beer?

Let's say that you're a small brewery with a relentless social media presence of three, four or more Fb posts per day, probably 90%...

Beers with a Stoic: On Hop Atomica, brewery taproom expectations and generation gaps

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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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...