Showing posts with label Beer with a Socialist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beer with a Socialist. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Welcome to 12 days of a beer world that utterly baffles me.

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Last week a friend gave me a bottle of Vienna-style lager from KC Bier Co, a brewery in Kansas City . It's a classic European style, un...
Sunday, July 05, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Believe it or not, "Drunk people can't socially distance."

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Yep, it takes a pandemic to grasp that drunks slobber, hug each other, start fights and behave abominably. Been there, seen that. To be hon...
Tuesday, June 09, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: I suppose even the racists, fascists and bad actors need their own craft brewery.

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Among other things, COVID-19 has proven to be the most effective (albeit inadvertent) truth serum of my lifetime. The virus is especial...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Social distancing and the single drinker.

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A very timely reminder: For the past 40 years I've always tried my best, at all times and twice on Sunday, to keep at least 6 feet away...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: A belated farewell to Brian O'Donnell.

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Three bullet points to begin the week ... Leading off, I'm six months late to the news, but it's better than not knowing at all...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: What is a "bar" and what is not; who can open now, and who must wait?

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The Frozen Weenie Chronicles of 2014. Last week my friend Jeff at Riverside Cigars/Match Cigar Bar in Jeffersonville posted a conundru...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Read Lew Bryson's latest article or I'll disown your sorry butt.

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My Monday column is out at Food & Dining Magazine : Hip Hops: One of those bucket list lager days . For knowledgeable beer drinker...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Hip Hops and doing another evolution.

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This fact will shock and amaze some readers, but from 1990 through 2001, or thereabouts, I edited a monthly FOSSILS homebrewing club news...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Sun King’s Keller Haze IPA in growlers, available at Pints&union as of Thursday, April 30.

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As a preface to what follows, something more important: A reminder about Pints&union and the Restaurant Workers Relief Program. T...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

My homes away from home are gone, so the SOCIALIST is having BEERS WITH himself.

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And with his wife, of course. Let's take a look at the calendar. Oktoberfest? Nope. The Fiesta of San Fermin in Pamplona? Cancele...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: A Schlenkerla interlude before filling growlers of Fastenbier.

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A month ago COVID-19 intervened just as I was trying to establish a regular writing routine at the Pints&union beer blog. Much of wha...
Tuesday, April 07, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: The Schönramer brewery, by way of Birra Tirana and other lager breweries in Europe.

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My intent today is to link you to an amazing article by Joe Stange about a brewery about which you've heard little located in the Bav...
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Friday, April 03, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Prohibitionists see an opportunity amid COVID-19's onslaught.

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But riots would violate social distancing, right? Beer writer Andy Crouch, who is from Massachusetts: "Liquor stores are fillin...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Sam is stepping away from Sam's, but the institution abides with new ownership.

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Photo from Payne-Koehler Road in 1980, with the Fourth Dam Tavern (future Sam's) on the left. Sam Anderson is stepping away from t...

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: The most recent ATC amendments to the previously recent carryout alcohol amendments.

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One of the unforeseen side effects of traditional phone books going the way of the dodo and Edsel is that I'm precluded from using th...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: In Indiana, the carryout adult beverage playing field is leveled ... temporarily.

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On Monday (March 23) the governor of Indiana released two significant executive orders: 20-08 (Directive for Hoosiers to Stay at Home) an...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Pubs in Ireland with plenty of beer in August, 1987.

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Hitchhiking to Lanesville from Ireland, 1987. During the late spring and early summer of 2017, I finally got around to digitizing some ...