From 2017: “When it comes to beer, less might yet be more”
This column was written in 2017. Pints&union came along in 2018, and Common Haus Hall in 2022. At both these establishments, owned by Joe...
European Grand Tour 1985, Part 2: In Luxembourg, I hit the ground crawling
Previously: European Grand Tour 1985, Part 1: Three months that shook my world.
In retrospect, two relatively odd twists stand out about the inaugural European...
European Grand Tour 1985, Part 1: Three months that shook my world
1984 gets all the ink, but it was 1985 that changed me forever. There was no keeping me down on the farm after I'd...
Not Hip & Fewer Hops: Congratulations to Larry, who found his way through the...
Originally posted at Food & Dining Magazine on 15 Nov 2021.
In a previous life, I fancied myself a group tour operator, and for a...
Menu Items: All the food was Greek to me, and gratefully so
Originally published at Food & Dining Magazine on 7 November 2021.
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“Edibles & Potables” is Food & Dining Magazine’s Sunday morning slot for a merry...
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,...
Lanesville Heritage Weekend is here again, and my mind is wandering (again)
On Indiana State Road 62, the main highway through Lanesville, there stands a sturdy red barn with nicely restored Mail Pouch Tobacco advertisements on...
Down the rabbit hole with Radio GDR
Merely a bookmark to offer: Radio GDR.
Life in the former East Germany holds an ongoing fascination for many people.
Join us on the East Germany...
ON THE AVENUES: Daze of future passed (1998 – 2021)
Pints&union began operations three years ago yesterday (and today, and this week). The following column first appeared at the NA Confidential blog in 2018,...
Werner Tübke, East German art, and the Americans in 1989
When the following article appeared in 2017, all of the talk in America was about building walls. Characteristically The Magnificent Trumpolini never understood that...
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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...
Archie’s axiom — or, beer’s ephemeral pass-through nature
Saturday evening we attended a performance of Urinetown: The Musical at Derby Dinner Playhouse in Clarksville, which is celebrating 50 years in existence; long...
