40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 45: The Silo and Oertels, as well...

Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 44: Life becoming a landslide (1992-93). Author's note: I've chosen to keep this installment as a single...

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...

Professor Fritz Briem 1809 Berliner Weisse, now pouring at Common Haus

Professor Fritz Briem 1809 Berliner Weisse currently is pouring at Common Haus Hall. In late May of 1989, I flew into West Berlin for three...

Beers with a Stoic: “Falls City’s new taproom concessionaire will be (envelope please) Parlour...

This column appeared under the "Hip Hops" rubric at Food & Dining Magazine on 10 December 2023. Head on over to F&D to read...

“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...

40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Six: One fine evening in Košice with Pilsner...

Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Five: Košice comes into view and the Zlatý Bažant flows. Drink beer with bitter hops, eat morning soup...

Business of Better Beer: Draft beer selections benefit from thoughtful guiding principles

No photos or videos, just words. With the passing of Common Haus Hall in Jeffersonville, where I served for the past year as beer director,...

Not Hip & Fewer Hops: Christmas beers, real or imagined, then and now

Originally published at Food & Dining Magazine on 14 December 2020. --- “My goodness”, muttered Claus, recalling his visit to the Institute, “the restrictive outerwear, the...

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 65: Smoky treats, a 9-hour, 9-brewery, 9-beer...

Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 64: The 2,301 day McOldenberg Brewmall 1990s vigil. Faithful “40 Years” readers will recall my first-ever visit to...

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...

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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...

The abstract modernism of “monuments and memory” in Tito’s Yugoslavia

Controversies over the newer monuments in Yugoslavia also came up as we talked. We discussed the memorial at Tjentište in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Ćosić argued that...

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...