Showing posts with label The Beer Beat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Beer Beat. Show all posts
Monday, September 14, 2020

From 2005: "TRAVEL PRELUDES: Poperinge and a date with Westvleteren."

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I'm sore because the pandemic postponed Poperinge's Beer and Hop Festival, and so this week I'll be flooding the blog pages with...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

ON THE AVENUES: I'd like nothing more than to go for another ride with Kevin.

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ON THE AVENUES: I'd like nothing more than to go for another ride with Kevin. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. My column is a...
Monday, August 27, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST Exploding beer cans? If I want to risk injury, I'll try to make it across a New Albany street on foot.

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Absolutely no disrespect to my bar-none favorite liquor store, just puzzlement at the decadence of the peak craft beer marketplace. I...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: There's a place for retro beers, but for better or worse, they don't taste the same as they once did.

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New Albany retro, lost to history. Recently I indulged a digression about Falls City  in both old and new incarnations, and my friend Sc...
Monday, August 13, 2018

PINTS & UNION PORTFOLIO: Beer Tuesday Talk & Taste, and Tabletop Tuesday; beer and board gaming starting Tuesday, August 14.

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To be perfectly honest, I've yet to make the acquaintance of The Settlers of Catan , yet I'm undeterred. If I were asked to selec...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: In consideration of Falls City Classic Pilsner, on tap now at Pints&union.

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It's always best to start at the beginning, and so it might help to know that the term "Falls City" predates those beers be...
Friday, August 10, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: "In short, hemp and hops can only work together if state and federal regulators get out of the way."

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This is an excellent essay about innovation, regulation and weirdness. Thanks to E for the link. As for me, a pint of Fuller's Londo...
Tuesday, August 07, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: No absinthe-barrel-aged IPAs, please. Imperial Stout? Let me think about that one.

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Too late. Someone in the Netherlands already went and did absinthe beer, not barrel-aged (some things should remain far removed from sch...
Monday, August 06, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: "When you think of your favorite spot to grab a beer, what architectural features come to mind?"

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Jeff Speck forwarded the following link at Twitter, and if you're like the lady who wrote to the newspaper the other day from an angui...
Sunday, August 05, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: An accumulated thirst -- or, lots of kegs floated at Pints&union.

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I am somewhat flabbergasted by the tally, but happily so. After four "official" business days preceded by two "soft"...
Friday, August 03, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: And the honor goes to Fuller's London Pride.

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At approximately 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 2, 2018 the first keg to be emptied at Pints&union was Fuller's London Pride, wi...
Thursday, August 02, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Drink a toast to trailblazing New Albany brewer Hew Ainslie with a McEwan's Scotch Ale.

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Let's drink to our next meeting, lads, Nor think on what's atwixt; They're fools wha spoil the present hour By thinking on...
Wednesday, August 01, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Pints&union begins regular hours tonight, and there's a "luxuriant brunette brew" to help celebrate.

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Noon edit: this introduction was posted on social media and is a tad more specific. Scroll down for this morning's original post. ...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Kalin Tavern, where a passport is required to cross the barroom.

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At Conde Nast Traveler , Ken Jennings writes about a tavern divided. Sitting on an international border can be bad for business. Run...
Sunday, July 29, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Against the Grain to Citra its Ass Down in Okinawa.

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You may be asking: Okinawa? Japan’s southernmost prefecture is relatively close to Taiwan and Mainland China, and they have influence...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: A casual soft opening for Pints&union on a frenetic Friday evening in downtown New Albany.

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Pints&union cleared its first hurdle on Friday evening. It was a very soft opening, with beers and drinks and nibbles. The handles ...
Friday, July 27, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: A Pints&union preview in the News and Tribune.

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Pints&union will be opening for regular business hours next week. This much I know. Otherwise, please connect with the Facebook page ...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: The forthcoming beer list at Pints&union (bottle and can edition).

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This one's NOT on the list. Yesterday I wrote briefly about the opening draft list at Pints& union, but first a quick reminder: ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Kevin Gibson's look at Pints&union in Insider Louisville.

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I spent the afternoon filling it with cans and bottles. As always, Kevin's reporting is impeccable, so read all about it -- and the...
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Monday, July 23, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Pints&union will be opening later this week.

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The obscure and long-awaited regulatory incantation from the Indiana Alcohol & Tobacco Commission arrived this morning, freeing the w...