Friday, August 14, 2026
Beer

Beer

    Random

    Foundational beer texts, perhaps dated, but gloriously so

    Beer Roger Baylor -
    0
    We all have our foundational texts, and these are three of mine (although not the only ones), as plucked from the shelf a few...

    40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty: Beer, zakuski, vodka and ice cream

    Beer Roger Baylor -
    2
    Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Nineteen: Moscow skyline in twilight, 1989. Founding Soviet patriarch Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died in early 1924, and while he...

    February update: 40 Years in Beer, Baylors in the Balkans, and a forthcoming book...

    Beer Roger Baylor -
    0
    Regular readers know that my "day job" is at Food & Dining Magazine, where responsibilities have expanded over the years from writing a quarterly...

    40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Three: Beery Copenhagen days and Oktoberfest nights in Munich

    Beer Roger Baylor -
    1
    Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Two: A placid traditional Danish lunch in Copenhagen, 1989. Among my proudest moments as an American abroad was the...

    40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Two: A placid traditional Danish lunch in Copenhagen, 1989

    Beer Roger Baylor -
    1
    Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-One: Those legendary working beers with the FDJ in the GDR. There was a faint glow, and an aura...

    Beers with a Stoic: When you personally experience ageism, that’s when you know it’s...

    Beer Roger Baylor -
    0
    I’ll remember the winter of ’23-’24 as a difficult time for me — professionally, not personally. This turbulence, which seems to be gradually receding as...

    Pints&union schedule for Harvest Homecoming (with food vending collaborator Leaven Bakery)

    Beer Roger Baylor -
    0
    When the no parking signs go up for the Harvest Homecoming parade, so does the ambient weirdness in New Albany. It peaks on the...

    Diary: Upland’s acquisition of FCBC emblemizes a shift in food and drink in downtown...

    Beer Roger Baylor -
    0
    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...

    The 40 Years in Beer Compendium: links, previews, and coming attractions

    Beer Roger Baylor -
    0
    (Updated on August 11, 2026) 40 44 Years in Beer is a memoir of my life and times in the beer business. The first of these...

    40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 49: Bluegrass Brewing Co. — an ideal...

    Beer Roger Baylor -
    0
    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...
    123...19Page 1 of 19

    Latest article

    40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 92: Pentecostal pews, beer judging exams and...

    Beer Roger Baylor -
    0
    Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 91: New Albany’s brewing history, prior to NABC resuming it. It would be perfectly reasonable of the...

    40 Years of Sidebars: Hugo Claus, Frans Masereel & NABC’s one-off Silent Oath Oud...

    Beer Roger Baylor -
    0
    This Belgian cultural excursion didn’t slot handily into the “40 Years in Beer” narrative, and so I've declared it suitable as a “sidebar.” The...

    40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 91: New Albany’s brewing history, prior to...

    Beer Roger Baylor -
    0
    Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 90: A brewery for the New Albanian in all of us, Lite-free NABC debuts in 2002. In...
    "This is a city made for exiles. Many exiles, of course, are given no choice, but I imagine most of us sometimes tire of living in the open, where everything is plain to see and we ourselves are obvious, and for anyone with this sporadic impulse to withdraw into somewhere less transparent, Trieste offers a compelling destination--surreptitious itself, and ambiguous. It has offered a new home to many expatriates, voluntary or compulsory, but in the event, many have spent half their time here wistfully wishing they were somewhere else. For this is an ironic gift of the place--to attract and to sadden, both at the same time."
    Jan Morris (1926-2020)
    Contact us: roger@rogerbaylor.com
    © Copyright Roger Baylor