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Diary: 17 years ago, the New Albany Historic Home Tour and the Schwartzel family

Diary: 17 years ago, the New Albany Historic Home Tour and...

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<div>The Songs for a (P&u) Departure (4): “Once upon a time I stood for all he did”</div>

The Songs for a (P&u) Departure (4): “Once upon a time...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 60: Those glorious Belgian beer cafes (Euro Beer Travel 1995, Part III)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 60: Those glorious Belgian...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 55: Cerveza in the afternoon at Pamplona’s Fiesta de San Fermín

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 55: Cerveza in the...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 66: The Updated Good...

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Here’s the epitaph: “In the end, Pints&union didn’t deserve New Albany”

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The Next Train to Bamberg, Now Boarding at Common Haus Hall

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The Songs for a (P&u) Departure (1): “These cameras never lie”

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My curious habit of conversing with other people over beers, and...

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The Songs for a (P&u) Departure (2): “Empty souls will leave...

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40 Years in Beer, Part Ten: When friends actually did let friends drive drunk

40 Years in Beer, Part Ten: When friends actually did let...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 62: Rich O’s expands, and we gain an affinity for Rogue Ales (1995)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 62: Rich O’s expands,...

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Two negatives seldom equal a positive, but enough of toxic fortune...

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Does New Albany even have an intellectual history?

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A brief recounting of the Balkan getaway in February, 2025

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Even a curmudgeon has a few thanks to give before the...

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40 Years in Beer, Part Eleven: The Fat Cats Deli &...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 61: The Silo Microbrewery’s fatal travails, 1994 – 1997

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 61: The Silo Microbrewery’s...

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European Grand Tour 1985, Part 2: In Luxembourg, I hit the...

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40 Years in Beer, Part Six: The K & H Forever...

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Hip Hops: Craft beer, still “brewed for flavor and drinkability”

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A writing update: the beer book is underway (also, other projects)

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<div>40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 71: A-B, Molotov cocktails, Mitch Steele and me (G.A.B.F., 1997 & 1998)</div>

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 71: A-B, Molotov cocktails,...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 76: A boy can dream – about beercycling (and a Requiem for Moose)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 76: A boy can...

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In Tirana, 31 years between views of Enver Hoxha’s house

In Tirana, 31 years between views of Enver Hoxha’s house

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 75: My shoes are filled with Volga mud (1999)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 75: My shoes are...

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My beers in the GDR, Part One: A working lunch in East Berlin, August 1989

My beers in the GDR, Part One: A working lunch in...

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

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

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Welcome to Nawbany, Episode 1: Let’s all fight for something, anything,...

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Diary: Jerry Sandusky is not allowed to rewrite his heinous narrative

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 68: The advent of...

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The centenary of my father’s birth is today (March 7, 1925 – 2025)

The centenary of my father’s birth is today (March 7, 1925...

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Beers with a Stoic: Check out THIS upscale luxury beer list

Beers with a Stoic: Check out THIS upscale luxury beer list

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 70: Made-for-megabrewing stylelessness at the G.A.B.F. in 1997

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 70: Made-for-megabrewing stylelessness at...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 74: Down a rabbit hole, deep into the Belgian beer paradise (1998)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 74: Down a rabbit...

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My Beers in the GDR, Part Three: Yes, there was lots of beer in East Germany

My Beers in the GDR, Part Three: Yes, there was lots...

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It’s hard to converse when your party’s official policy is censorship

It’s hard to converse when your party’s official policy is censorship

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 78: We just had to get to Merry Old England (1998)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 78: We just had...

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Bock beer’s back story, because the time draws near

Bock beer’s back story, because the time draws near

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 5: A critical Mass in Rome — and the famous Pecetto bus incident

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 5: A critical Mass in Rome —...

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Quadrophenia: “Ain’t it funny how we all seem to look the same?”

Quadrophenia: “Ain’t it funny how we all seem to look the...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 7: Vienna and the dawning of a Habsburg fixation

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 7: Vienna and the dawning of a...

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The Songs for a (P&u) Departure (3): Don’t go away mad,...

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40 Years in Beer, Part Seven: The K & H Forever...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 8: At long last, glorious beer in Salzburg and Munich

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 8: At long last, glorious beer in...

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Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025, Ch. 14: Meet the Finns — and hop a bus to Leningrad

Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025, Ch. 14: Meet the Finns — and hop...

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A big damn guide to downtown New Albany (in 2010)

A big damn guide to downtown New Albany (in 2010)

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 73: All 42 pages of the 1999 Rich O’s beer list

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 73: All 42 pages...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 9: Lizard King in the City of Light — and on to Ireland

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 9: Lizard King in the City of...

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Reprise: “Talking Seventh Inning Blues”

Reprise: “Talking Seventh Inning Blues”

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When I’m 64? Now that I’m 64? Can we go back...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 69: Spring Break in 1997 with the classic Central European brewers

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 69: Spring Break in...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 3: Growing up in Greece with Henry Miller

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 3: Growing up in Greece with Henry...

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40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Six: From a 1990 portal, Sportstime Pizza to Rich O’s BBQ to NABC

40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Six: From a 1990 portal, Sportstime...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 1: Three months that shook my world

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 1: Three months that shook my world

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Still failing to reincarnate Keith Moon

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“Death to Chain Restaurants,” or how one evening at Taco Bell (circa 2005) radicalized me

“Death to Chain Restaurants,” or how one evening at Taco Bell...

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From 2017: “When it comes to beer, less might yet be more”

From 2017: “When it comes to beer, less might yet be...

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Dr. Fritz Briem 1809 Berliner Weisse, now pouring at Common Haus

Dr. Fritz Briem 1809 Berliner Weisse, now pouring at Common Haus

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40 Years in Beer, Part Fourteen: Pilsner Urquell pilgrimage, locked gates, and a taxi driver’s day off

40 Years in Beer, Part Fourteen: Pilsner Urquell pilgrimage, locked gates,...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 79: Stuck in a moment (and you can’t get out of it)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 79: Stuck in a...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 42): Barr built the bar, and the Guinness began pouring

40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 42): Barr built the...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 56: Michael Jackson’s 1994 visit to Louisville — BBC, the Silo, Rich O’s

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 56: Michael Jackson’s 1994...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 53: The birth of Samichlaus at Zürich’s classic Brauerei Hürlimann (1994)

40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 53: The birth of...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 57: Beer writer Michael Jackson’s reaction to the Red Room at the Public House (1994)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 57: Beer writer Michael...

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My year in books and reading, 2024

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 2: Crawling across the borderline into Luxembourg

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 2: Crawling across the borderline into Luxembourg

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Dear New Albany: I only bedded you because “space just happened to be available”

Dear New Albany: I only bedded you because “space just happened...

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The famous mishap in Madrid, November, 1989

The famous mishap in Madrid, November, 1989

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Roger’s year in music, 2024

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40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 86: Beer, writing, and my life in and out of F.O.S.S.I.L.S., 1990 – 2026

40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 86: Beer, writing, and...

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My Beers in the GDR, Part Two: Sharing a few Pilsners with a future war criminal

My Beers in the GDR, Part Two: Sharing a few Pilsners...

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Tirana 2025: Bunk’Art 2 and a Skanderbeg Square protest

Tirana 2025: Bunk’Art 2 and a Skanderbeg Square protest

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The Euro ’85 Pilgrimage Compendium

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February update: 40 Years in Beer, Baylors in the Balkans, and...

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<div>40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 59: Czech and Slovak beer & Hungarian Bull’s Blood wine (Euro Beer Travel 1995, Part II)</div>

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 59: Czech and Slovak...

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

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40 Years of Sidebars: Baltimore and a few wee drams in spring (1996)

40 Years of Sidebars: Baltimore and a few wee drams in...

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Diary: Let’s keep those mine shafts to a minimum in 2025

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40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 44): Life becoming a landslide (1992-93)

40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 44): Life becoming a...

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Beers with a Stoic: On Hop Atomica, brewery taproom expectations and...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 64: The 2,301 day McOldenberg Brewmall 1990s vigil

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 64: The 2,301 day...

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It’s your friends, neighbors and a few blood relatives doing this,...

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 16: Lessons learned, corners turned, bridges burned (finis)

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 16: Lessons learned, corners turned, bridges burned...

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Ed Clere is running for mayor of New Albany, and I...

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40 Years in Beer, Part Thirteen: In 1987, it was almost “impossible to find bad beer” in Czechoslovakia

40 Years in Beer, Part Thirteen: In 1987, it was almost...

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40 Years in Beer, Part Nineteen: Moscow skyline in twilight, 1989

40 Years in Beer, Part Nineteen: Moscow skyline in twilight, 1989

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40 Years in Beer, Part 80: Running Gravity Head’s daunting gauntlet (Act I: 1999 – 2009)

40 Years in Beer, Part 80: Running Gravity Head’s daunting gauntlet...

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Beers with a Stoic: Wouldn’t it be less expensive NOT to...

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Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025, Ch. 13: Introductions to Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm and Uppsala

Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025, Ch. 13: Introductions to Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm and...

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40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Three: Beery Copenhagen days and Oktoberfest nights in Munich

40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Three: Beery Copenhagen days and Oktoberfest...

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Diary: Endeavour Morse, Joseph Brodsky and coping with the darkness of the Open Air Museum of Ignorance, Superstition and Backwardness

Diary: Endeavour Morse, Joseph Brodsky and coping with the darkness of...

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40 Years in Beer, Part Fifteen: A clash of titans (with Elephant Beer) in Copenhagen, 1987

40 Years in Beer, Part Fifteen: A clash of titans (with...

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Top Ten things I reject that other people revere

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R.I.P. Mariusz Handzlik, a Polish diplomat (1965 – 2010)

R.I.P. Mariusz Handzlik, a Polish diplomat (1965 – 2010)

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40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Seven: Ladislav’s language — or, teaching credentials from a tiki bar in Ostrava

40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Seven: Ladislav’s language — or, teaching...

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Diary: When you personally experience ageism, that’s when you know it’s...

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<div>40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 77: A “tight” 1998 European summer (San Fermin & the French Alps)</div>

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 77: A “tight” 1998...

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The “40 Years in Beer” Compendium: links, previews, and coming attractions

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Speaking of epitaphs, a wonderful song called “Get Out and Stay...

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