Ever since I began the process of disengaging from NABC, which diligent future historians will observe taking place at various intervals in the year 2015 (and which isn't yet concluded), my relationship with beer has been in flux.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's just different.
The world of beer has changed considerably during the past decade, and so have I. So have all of us. At times these days I want to throw Molotov cocktails at what I perceive beer is in the process of becoming, but at other times I love it as much as I always did.
Yeah, it's complicated.
To get to the point, and stated simply, my head currently isn't in alignment with the effort required to maintain two blogs. For whatever reason, NA Confidential -- which I've always referred to as my "public affairs" outlet -- has absorbed most of my time in recent years, with results that better reflect my interests, and that have produced gains in terms of readership.
As my column there Thursday explains, it makes more sense to fold my beer writing into NA Confidential, while keeping The Potable Curmudgeon as an archive (and ready source for cannibalizing past ideas).
All of these considerations also feed into an impending personal reality check. It was planned for me to take a year off to regroup, and the missus has been patient, but now the year is over. The column explains it; just know that easing back into the game via altered circumstances is the path I'll likely be pursuing.
In the meantime, look for beer writing at NAC prefixed by THE BEER BEAT, and remember that everything I've just explained could be obsolete the day after tomorrow. I'm playing things by ear, readying to go to the mattresses, and whichever other tired cliche might be inserted here.
Of course, anyone who might be in the market for an unemployed curmudgeon who can write a bit and probably is otherwise unemployable might be able to delay my entrepreneurial plans.
To those of you who've been eavesdropping here these many years, I cannot thank you enough. There'll yet be a few things to tidy up here, and I'll get to them soon enough. Cheers!
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ON THE AVENUES: It’s never too late to beer all over again.
It isn’t that I’ve fallen out of love with beer. We’re not divorced or anything. A better word is estranged, which implies an alienation of affection, but doesn’t entirely rule out the possibility of reconciliation.
These thoughts occurred to me recently as I was contemplating the future of The Potable Curmudgeon, my beer-themed blog. It dates to 2005, and has enjoyed some fine moments over the years, though recently my commitment to maintaining it has waned.
Slightly less so Roger’s Simple Beer Pleasures, a page at Facebook that I started in late 2015. It is far better suited to the truncated social-media-driven attention spans ruling the planet at present, including my own, at least as it pertains to beer and brewing.
In spite of my efforts, I can’t seem to make The PC blog and Simple Pleasures work in harmony the way NA Confidential’s blog and Fb page do, primarily because my efforts are half-hearted.
There’s the rub.
I care more about what I’m writing at NA Confidential than The Potable Curmudgeon, so I’m willing to make the time at one and not the other. Taking it a step further, this indiscipline owes to my sense of estrangement from the world of beer and brewing. It isn’t that I don’t enjoy writing about beer, thinking about it and even drinking it, just that it isn’t a daily priority at present.
Consequently, I’ll be altering the routine in the weeks to come. The beer writing I undertake will be featured here at NA Confidential, and I’ll allow The Potable Curmudgeon to remain dormant as an archive.
Perhaps Fridays will be NAC’s Beer Day, or some such. Since so much of my beer writing has sought connectivity between beer and other interests in my life, putting them all in one place rather than separating them makes the most sense.
That is, until it doesn’t.
Read the rest here.
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Saturday, December 10, 2016
Sunday, July 03, 2016
The Top 20 posts at Potable Curmudgeon, 2nd Quarter 2016.
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| I'm told PS's proceeds dipped this year. |
The Potable Curmudgeon's top 20 posts for the second quarter of 2016 are listed here. These rankings are determined by a mysterious Blogger formula I no longer understand. So be it.
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95 ... 06/13/2016
THE POTABLE CURMUDGEON: I know I’m gonna change that tune.
108 ... 04/18/2016
THE POTABLE CURMUDGEON: Euro ’85, Part 33 … All good things must come to a beginning.
110 ... 06/27/2016
AFTER THE FIRE: Out and about in America, Europe … and my cups.
115 ... 04/15/2016
After 15 years, Little Kings returns to Cincinnati.
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(126 average) ... TWO-PART SERIES: A few beers on Estonian time.
96 ... 05/16/2016
THE POTABLE CURMUDGEON: A few beers on Estonian time (Part One).
156 ... 05/23/2016
THE POTABLE CURMUDGEON: A few beers on Estonian time (Part Two).
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130 ... 04/01/2016
The Six Session Beers of Session Beer Day, 2016 (Ch. 1): Falls City Kentucky Common.
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(131 average) ... TWO-PART SERIES: The mouse, the elephant, and a clash of nonpareils.
145 ... 04/25/2016
THE POTABLE CURMUDGEON: The mouse, the elephant, and a clash of nonpareils ... part one.
118 ... 04/26/2016THE POTABLE CURMUDGEON: The mouse, the elephant, and a clash of nonpareils ... part two.
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132 ... 05/09/2016
THE POTABLE CURMUDGEON: Hip Hops ... A look at two new New Albany breweries.
133 ... 04/04/2016
THE POTABLE CURMUDGEON: Birracibo’s local/regional “craft” beer percentage rides the bench.
134 ... 06/06/2016
Special Ed's Brewery elevates cluelessness to an art form -- and brewing hasn't even started.
145 ... 06/22/2016
HopCat is coming to Louisville, and it's gonna be yuuuge.
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(148 average) ... FOUR-PART SERIES: 18th Street's Sex and Candy
133 ... 05/11/2016
(1 of 4) 18th Street's Sex and Candy, but first, the story of 18th Street Brewery.
165 ... 05/12/2016111 ... 05/13/2016
(2 of 4) 18th Street's Sex and Candy, and how the "Twitter Fight Over Racy Indiana Beer Label Highlights Industry Sexism Concerns."
(3 of 4) 18th Street's Sex and Candy, and wondering, "What ... the Brewers Association (Is) Doing to Address Gender and Race?"
184 ... 05/14/2016
(4 of 4) 18th Street's Sex and Candy: "Your Sexism is Predictable and Boring, 18th Street Brewery."
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149 ... 06/26/2016
Turn up at a complete stranger's house and pay them to cook you dinner.
150 ... 06/06/2016
THE POTABLE CURMUDGEON: A Mile Wide sidewalk superintendent.
169 ... 04/08/2016
The beer list at Doc's Cantina in Louisville.
172 ... 05/10/2016
It doesn't matter whether Guy Fieri's new Louisville restaurant has good beer because none of us will be going there anyway.
172 ... 05/27/2016
Bud Light Lime in Louisville, but in Cleveland, "Progressive Field keeps turning into a cavernous culinary and craft-beer mecca."
271 ... 05/25/2016
Hugh E. Bir's to celebrate 50 years at the ORIGINAL 4th Street Live on Sunday, June 5.
479 ... 06/03/2016
A tail of two Yetis: Red Yeti sued by Great Divide.
520 ... 05/28/2016
Roger answers all your questions on the eve of Boomtown, 2016.
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Sunday, April 03, 2016
The Top 10 posts at Potable Curmudgeon, 1st Quarter 2016.
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| Vic's is Numero Uno. |
The Potable Curmudgeon's top 10 posts for the first quarter of 2016 are listed here. These rankings are determined by numbers of unique hits, as reported by Blogger.
127 ... 02/05/16
I've resigned from the Brewers of Indiana Guild's board. Now it's YOUR turn to grab an oar.
128 ... 02/09/16
NABC's Gravity Head 2016: The full lineup is here.
136 ... 02/22/16
The PC: Beef Steak and Porter always made good belly mortar, but did America’s “top” steakhouses get the memo?
144 (tie) ... 01/12/16
Tony Beard's artwork for Gravity Head 2016: "Choose Your Own Adventure."
144 (tie) ... 01/18/16
Sadly, Three Pints Brewing Company has closed.
149 ... 02/24/16
"Your Gravity Head 2016 Opening Lineup."
158 ... 02/03/16
Come drink beer with me on Session Beer Day, April 7, 2016.
193 ... 03/17/16
Join me on a Session Beer Day Brewery Crawl on Thursday, April 7.
238 ... 03/07/16
THE POTABLE CURMUDGEON: Can I get a “do-over” on Naughty Girl?
423 ... 01/07/16
Gravity Head 2016 begins at NABC on February 26.
719 ... 01/03/16
Vic's Cafe is profiled in the Courier-Journal.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015
The Top 15 posts at Potable Curmudgeon for 2015.
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| At #1: Seems like one hundred years ago, doesn't it? |
The Potable Curmudgeon's top 15 posts for 2015 are listed here, beginning with The First Ten, followed by the The Top Five.
These rankings are determined by numbers of unique hits, as reported by Blogger. Most of the top posts pertain to local or regional stories, and this pleases me. It comes as little surprise that readership declined during the period of my absence, while I was campaigning for mayor of New Albany. Numbers began rising again in November and December.
On January 1, The Potable Curmudgeon begins its 12th year. As always, thanks for reading.
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THE FIRST TEN
233 (tie) ... 03/30/2015
The PC: Our bedfellows are becoming stranger with each passing legislative session.
233 (tie) ... 06/09/2015
Floyd County Brewing Company (in New Albany) is getting closer to opening.
237 (tie) ... 06/06/2015
Dry-hopped Clausthaler, or Hopster from Shelton Brothers?
237 (tie) ... 03/16/2015
The PC: As I’ve been saying since 1980, alcohol is a different matter entirely.
240 ... 07/23/2015
Roger Baylor's $21 at 55 Birthday Party Fundraiser on Monday, August 3.
294 ... 02/26/2015
Media notice: Roger A. Baylor will take a leave of absence from NABC to run for mayor of New Albany.
314 ... 08/14/2015
My column in the latest Food & Dining Magazine is about Gordon Biersch.
330 ... 07/16/2015
Josh Hill departs Floyd County Brewing Company.
382 ... 01/02/2015
Indiana does Platonic Sandwich Dialogues: Is a hot dog a sandwich? Is pizza? Are tacos?
417 ... 10/17/2015
November 7 is Bluegrass Brewing Company's 22nd anniversary party.
427 ... 03/13/2015
Donum Dei's grand opening is on St. Patrick's Day -- Tuesday, March 17.
446 ... 01/17/2015
These requests from abroad, Vol. 11: "I love beer for the fact that with every breath of the world is getting better."
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THE TOP FIVE
509 ... 03/09/2015
The PC: All about localism at the 2015 Indiana Craft Brewers Conference.
650 ... 02/02/2015
The PC: Budweiser explains the Doctrine of Trojan Geese Transubstantiation.
708 ... 12/27/2015
The whoredom of "craft": Breckenridge's Todd Usry on authenticity, first in February, then in December.
944 ... 01/01/2015
"Craft Brewers Are Running Out Of Names," clever or otherwise.
1,609 ... 01/19/2015
The PC: Ripped straight from the pages of an Onion satire: “13 white males not really so eager to discuss issues like racism and sexism.”
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