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...
The Next Train to Bamberg, Now Boarding at Common Haus Hall
The Next Train to Bamberg, Now Boarding at Common Haus Hall
Common Haus Hall (134 Spring Street, Jeffersonville IN) is preparing for its grand opening...
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...
40 Years in Beer, Part Sixteen: In 1988, I had a slightly better year...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Fifteen: A clash of titans (with Elephant Beer) in Copenhagen, 1987.
Returning briefly to our contemporary era from distant...
40 Years in Beer, Part Five: Those Scoreboard daze of old (second movement)
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Four: Those Scoreboard daze of old (first movement).
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These many years later, I’m saddened to observe the passing of so...
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...
40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty-Three: Herzlich Willkommen in der Weltbierkulturerbe-Stadt Bamberg
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty-Two: Vienna’s “Old Whisky Malt Waltz,” a precursor of beer revolutions to come.
Keyboardist Robert Lamm of the venerable...
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, Part Four: Those Scoreboard daze of old (first movement)
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Three: Did I really look like a guy with a plan?
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When I first began working at Scoreboard Liquors in...
Diary for 28 July 2021: “Craft” is especially nonsensical when tacked to “hard” seltzer
The point of these “diary” entries is to write as the mood strikes me, in the moment.
I'd suggest we piss on hard seltzer, but...
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Daphne Phelps and “A House in Sicily”
The struggle to learn the language was wearing, when study necessarily took place after long days of dealing with endless kind visitors who felt...
Tilda Swinton in Berlin: “Cycling the Frame” (1988) and “The Invisible Frame” (2009)
It's been at least two years since I created this draft, and it has waited patiently for me to return to the story of...
The enduring fraudulence of street sweeping in Nawbany
This morning (24 April 2024), a Facebook friend had this to say:
The street sweeper in NA sucks. I can’t believe we juggle our cars...
