40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty: F.O.S.S.I.L.S. rambunctious youth, budding internationalism, and a Patoka...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Nine: The radicalization of F.O.S.S.I.L.S. (1990-91).
F.O.S.S.I.L.S. was founded in September, 1990, and now we pick up the club’s...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Nine: The radicalization of F.O.S.S.I.L.S. (1990-91)
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Eight: The founding of F.O.S.S.I.L.S. in 1990.
“You’re quite the polemicist. Have I told you why your Red Room...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Eight: The founding of F.O.S.S.I.L.S. in 1990
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Seven: Ladislav’s language — or, teaching credentials from a tiki bar in Ostrava.
Today's installment requires a short introduction...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Seven: Ladislav’s language — or, teaching credentials from a...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Six: From a 1990 portal, Sportstime Pizza to Rich O’s BBQ to NABC.
Editor's note: The black and white photos...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Six: From a 1990 portal, Sportstime Pizza to Rich...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Five: The end of the beginning (1989-1990).
An anecdote to kick off this installment, as relayed by the Irish...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Five: The end of the beginning (1989-1990)
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Four: That infamous Madrid episode, and a necessary curtailment.
According to conventional sources of Internet wisdom, a Europhile is...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Four: That infamous Madrid episode, and a necessary curtailment
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Three: Beery Copenhagen days and Oktoberfest nights in Munich.
As a general rule, and for a great many years,...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Three: Beery Copenhagen days and Oktoberfest nights in Munich
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
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...
Green with entropy?
Regardless of who invented it, the first people to make green beer probably made it the same, slightly unintuitive way it's made today: a...
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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 44): Life becoming a landslide (1992-93)
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 43): Facing the music at Rich O’s in 1992.
By the late summer of 1992, a routine had...
