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40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 89: A millennial upsurge with Cumberland Brews, Browning’s, BBC Brewing Co. (2000 – 2003)

40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 89: A millennial upsurge...

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Roger’s year in music, 2025

Roger’s year in music, 2025

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MLK Day, 2026

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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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A few of Skopje’s many statues (one year later)

A few of Skopje’s many statues (one year later)

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Diary: Has anyone of sound mind ever fretted over losing a...

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Dearest Dear Leader: “The trashing-by-design of Spring St. needs to stop”

Dearest Dear Leader: “The trashing-by-design of Spring St. needs to stop”

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

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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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City officials giddy as New Albany finally makes Guinness Book of World Records

City officials giddy as New Albany finally makes Guinness Book of...

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

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Diary: Cousteau the band (not the oceanographer)

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40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 88: From Tokaj to Żywiec, and Achouffe to Poperinge (Travel 2002)

40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 88: From Tokaj to...

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My year in books, 2022

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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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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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My year in books and reading, 2025

My year in books and reading, 2025

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 15: Soviet times in Leningrad and the long trek back to Luxembourg

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 15: Soviet times in Leningrad and the...

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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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Coffey vs. Dickey in the 2nd? Slice me off a piece...

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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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<div>“One Night with the Publican” beer tastings to be revived at Harbor & Hops in 2025</div>

“One Night with the Publican” beer tastings to be revived at...

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Diary: Tall ships, Randy Shilts “and the band played on”

Diary: Tall ships, Randy Shilts “and the band played on”

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Beers with a Stoic: Spare me the modern speakeasy, will ya?

Beers with a Stoic: Spare me the modern speakeasy, will ya?

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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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R.I.P. Barry Sears, a friend since kindergarten who changed my life...

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Briefly: Looking for a good biography of Eugene V. Debs? This...

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The book that wasn’t, why it won’t be, and really, that’s...

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Archie’s axiom — or, beer’s ephemeral pass-through nature

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Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 4: Greece, Turkey, a famous Pythion interlude, and the Levant according to Hassan

Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 4: Greece, Turkey, a famous Pythion interlude,...

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On the murder of Charlie Kirk

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

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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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An entirely unexpected Sagamore of the Wabash

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

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Take me, I’m existentially yours (or, crisis—what crisis?)

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40 Years of Sidebars: The Complete 35 Days of Beercycling 2003 Journal (Germany, Austria) with photos

40 Years of Sidebars: The Complete 35 Days of Beercycling 2003...

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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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40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 95: Sweet home New Albany, and an Irish wintertime oyster indulgence (2003)

40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 95: Sweet home New...

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Does New Albany even have an intellectual history?

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Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025 Pt. 11: Sligo respite, Live Aid, then back to France for the D-Day beaches

Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025 Pt. 11: Sligo respite, Live Aid, then back...

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40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 93: Beer, circus, and the Great NABC vs. Big Red Liquors War of 2003

40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 93: Beer, circus, and...

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Take this cult (of personality) and shove it

Take this cult (of personality) and shove it

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

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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, Part Sixteen: In 1988, I had a slightly better year than Michael Dukakis

40 Years in Beer, Part Sixteen: In 1988, I had a...

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Diary: The Craft Brewers Conference was in Indy, but I feared...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 58: Several thousand Delta frequent flier miles later (Euro 1995, Part I)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 58: Several thousand Delta...

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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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Diary: Upland’s acquisition of FCBC emblemizes a shift in food and...

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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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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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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 83: Full frontal hops in Poperinge, Bamberg and Žatec (1999)

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 83: Full frontal hops...

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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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Seeing is believing — right, Zuckerschmuck?

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

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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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40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 91: New Albany’s brewing history, prior to NABC resuming it

40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 91: New Albany’s brewing...

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Justin Brown is my preferred candidate for Floyd Circuit Court Judge

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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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A brief recounting of the Balkan getaway in February, 2025

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Green beer for St. Paddy’s? No, but let’s reward the principled,...

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40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 90: A brewery for the New Albanian in all of us, Lite-free NABC debuts in 2002

40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 90: A brewery for...

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Unleash your inner pagan at Saturnalia MMVI, a winter solstice draft...

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Five Way Vegetarian Cincinnati Chili, because that’s the way I Iike it

Five Way Vegetarian Cincinnati Chili, because that’s the way I Iike...

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Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025, Ch. 12: Omaha Beach to the Manneken-Pis and Little Mermaid

Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025, Ch. 12: Omaha Beach to the Manneken-Pis and...

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40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 94: Beercycling the Danube Cycle Path with Pfifferlinge and Dunkel, 2003

40 Years in Beer (Book III), Part 94: Beercycling the Danube...

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An ongoing chronicle of what I can remember after 40 years in beer

An ongoing chronicle of what I can remember after 40 years...

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Reprise: “Talking Seventh Inning Blues”

Reprise: “Talking Seventh Inning Blues”

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Black Friday ain’t nothing but a memorable song by Steely Dan

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The toilet seat from Jim Morrison’s blue bus (1999 – 2016)

The toilet seat from Jim Morrison’s blue bus (1999 – 2016)

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Diary: As for me, I’m sorry you made it so damn...

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

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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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Roger’s year in music, 2022

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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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Green with entropy?

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40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 43): Facing the music at Rich O’s in 1992

40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 43): Facing the music...

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

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

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What’s done is done, and new adventures await

What’s done is done, and new adventures await

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Diary: Maybe I’m just having a bad week, or month, or…

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

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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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On making the San Fernando Valley one’s home sweet home

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A podcast called The Pubcast: “Four friends, diverse chats, one pub”

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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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From 2015: “Budweiser explains the Doctrine of Trojan Geese Island Transubstantiation”

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Damn straight Guinness is good for you

Damn straight Guinness is good for you

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Beers with a Stoic: Going away, coming back, and more about...

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Beers with a Stoic: Your luxury beer “list” reeks, so stop...

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Claude Lanzmann’s essential documentary film Shoah

Claude Lanzmann’s essential documentary film Shoah

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

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