Moody Tongue Beer Dinner at The Exchange in New Albany, 28 July 2021

At Moody Tongue, our goal is to create thoughtful, exciting beers that blend familiar flavors with quality ingredients through our philosophy of culinary brewing:...

Think beer globally, drink beer locally, pair beer with food thoughtfully

Every major industrialized nation has A BEER (you can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear...

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%...

REWIND: “This week in solipsistic beer narcissism” (2014)

Lightly edited to remove a couple of obscure topical references. --- Are you fed up with words you don’t understand? Tired of scrolling down to your favorite...

40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Four: In 1991, a smoky Bamberg sojourn with...

Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty-Three: Herzlich Willkommen in der Weltbierkulturerbe-Stadt Bamberg. Prior to the summer of 1991 and my first visit to Bamberg,...

Not Hip & Fewer Hops: My bucket beer list is NOT served with sliced...

Originally published at Food & Dining Magazine on 27 September 2021. Mr. Creosote: "Better get a bucket." Maître d': "booKAY?" I’ve often been accused of being a cynic,...

Damn straight Guinness is good for you

One of the beer world’s most famous advertising slogans is “Guinness is good for you,” which dates to the 1920s and is credited to...

Beers with a Stoic: “If you’re willing to play the (beer) game, it’s coming...

This column appeared under the "Hip Hops" rubric at Food & Dining Magazine on 27 December 2023. Head on over to F&D to read...

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...

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...

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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%...

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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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