Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Cross-country city bicyclist stops at BSB, has beer.

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Literally. That's what he did. Meet this utterly insane fellow who is crossing America by Bike Share (a NYC shared bicycle). Websit...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

In metro Louisville, "Craft beer to expand with 2 breweries opening."

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Crazy times, indeed. A man has only one liver. But damn it, I'll make to them all, and when I do, it's going to be about their neigh...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Here's the beer list at Smoke and Rye, the new eatery at Horseshoe Southern Indiana.

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Recalling the many and varied layers of pain NABC was compelled to navigate in getting local beer into Horseshoe Casino, this turning out...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Been there, love it: "Cozy Bavarian pub room transports visitors to Europe."

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The Bingham house was part of the New Albany Historic Home Tour in 2010 (when I took the photo here), and I was enamored of the Bavarian...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Falls City Common Beer and my introduction to Over the 9.

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I finally made it to Over the 9 , and had a wonderful time. The pretext was to have another beer or two with Cezary ... and the mission was ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Students in Zimbabwe use breakfast to make beer.

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This may be the first time I've seen a reference to beer in Zimbabwe since the early 1990s, when the BBC aired a report on a hop-growing...
Monday, September 14, 2015

The PC: Euro ’85, Part 18 … Irish history with a musical chaser.

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The PC: Euro ’85, Part 18 … Irish history with a musical chaser. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. (Eighteenth in a series chronicli...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

Bank Street Brewhouse today: Josh, Tony, football, beer and musical analogies.

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I caught up with NABC's production brewer Josh Hill the other day. He's on duty at Bank Street Brewhouse -- excited, dialed-in, a...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

Floyd County Brewing Company has opened for business in downtown New Albany.

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Earlier in the week, Floyd County Brewing Company "softly" opened. FCBC is located at 129 W. Main Street in New Albany. It...
Friday, September 11, 2015

What, you couldn't find an actual beer writer to fetishize multinational beer companies?

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Esquire helpfully informs us ... Aaron Goldfarb is the author of How to Fail: The Self-Hurt Guide, The Guide for a Single Man, and The G...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Lagunitas and Heineken: The bigger the price tag, the greater the irrelevance.

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The Lagunitas/Heineken deal struck me no differently than when picking up a Wall Street Journal or Financial Times and reading the brea...
Monday, September 07, 2015

The PC: Euro '85, Part 17 ... A first glimpse of Ireland.

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The PC: Euro '85, Part 17 ... A first glimpse of Ireland. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. (Seventeenth in a series chronicli...
Sunday, September 06, 2015

In a new quotation mark war, British "craft" brewers to take stab at "craft" definition.

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The great questions of our age. Is there free will? Do supernatural beings exist? What is meant by "craft"? I still use th...
Saturday, September 05, 2015

The New Albany Restaurant & Bar Association presents Biers on Parade, at the Farmers Market on Saturday, October 3.

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NEWS FROM: The New Albany Restaurant & Bar Association (NARBA) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 21, 2015 CONTACT:   Roger A. B...
Friday, September 04, 2015

Sun King fans in the Hoosier hinterlands, be patient: The beer is slowly returning.

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Someone just asked me about this ... Short version: This article refers to distribution returning to north central Indiana. Floyd, Clark a...
Thursday, September 03, 2015

"Pub-goers call time on screaming children."

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It's easy to be strident when you don't have kids of your own, and so I'd choose to echo these words from the article: "Get...
Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Obscure beer styles like these interest me.

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Over the years, I've been fortunate to taste examples of many of these styles. The one most interesting to me today is Kottbusser; I see...
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Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Sicilian vodka? I'd much rather have Icelandic gumbo.

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The word "vodka" is Slavic. It is a diminutive form of the word for water ("voda"), or Little Water, which surely is a p...
Monday, August 31, 2015

The PC: Euro ’85, Part 16 … Lizard King in the City of Light.

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The PC: Euro ’85, Part 16 … Lizard King in the City of Light. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. (Sixteenth in a series chronicling...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

FOSSILS 25th anniversary party camp-out RSVP are needed.

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I have almost no time to devote to the run-up, but I'm happy someone does. I'd promise to post some archival materials, except it is...