40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Nine: I’m off to Spijkenisse with a beer...

Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Eight: Christmas in Košice, 1991. My teaching assignment had always been open-ended, and I might have worked longer....

40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Five: Košice comes into view and the Zlatý...

Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Four: In 1991, a smoky Bamberg sojourn with Happy Helmut. On a sunny September morning in 1991, the...

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:...

Classist versus classicist, beer or elsewhere

A "Shane's Excellent New Words" column from December, 2019, revised and updated. What about classism versus classicism? The words have very different meanings. classism noun ...

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 (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...

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 Forty: Here’s why my tenure at Rich O’s BBQ...

Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty Nine: I’m off to Spijkenisse with a beer list in my hand (1992). With this 40th chapter of...

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,...

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...

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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...