Showing posts with label pubs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pubs. Show all posts
Sunday, May 24, 2020

Pints&union is taking a staycation this week, returning Tuesday 9 June.

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This post has been updated to reflect Joe's decision to extend the staycation to June 8, which means we'll be reopening on the ...
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...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Searching for the perfect pub, among other links to educational beer fare.

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"In the end, that’s what all of us long for in a pub: somewhere to go in which we can have a relaxing drink in a convivial atmosphere ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Pints&union garners an outstanding review in the Courier-Journal.

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Back in prehistoric times, through at least the dawn of the World Wide Web, these Courier-Journal reviews were disproportionately import...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: "Millennials haven't killed pubs – pubs just haven't kept up."

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St. Radegund Free House, back then. So here we are at Pints&union in li'l 'ol Nawbany, trying to emulate (if not copy out...
Monday, October 15, 2018

PINTS & UNION PORTFOLIO: Whether it's 1987 or 2018, Pilsner Urquell remains one of the finest beers on the planet.

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Normally I'm not prone to hyperbole, but I'll make an exception in the case of Pilsner Urquell. While Joe Phillips and the boys...
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, July 26, 2018

ON THE AVENUES: Maybe, just maybe, you really can go home again.

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ON THE AVENUES: Maybe, just maybe, you really can go home again. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. You’ll recall that some months ag...
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Friday, July 13, 2018

As the finish line nears, a few interior views of Pints&union.

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I've been taking photos throughout the Pints&union renovation, hoping to make some sort of time-lapse collage at the end. As noted...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

There's a preview of Pints & Union in the new issue of Extol Magazine.

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Extol Magazine's June/July issue is on the street, and there's a preview of Pints & Union. Go here to read it or pick up E...
Wednesday, June 06, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: These "new rules of pub etiquette" are a must-read.

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"Punter" can mean several things, but in British pub-speak it's "the regular sort of person who hangs out at places like...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

True colors: A Pints & Union visual update.

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The build-out pace has quickened since my last blog update, which was a March 27 link to the video at  New Albany Social , bu...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

THE BEER BEAT: This is why the classic British-style pub CAN and DOES make it in America.

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I saw this article a couple of days ago, and it was strange, because the author was being attacked by the usual IPA-powered-cyber-know-...
Friday, February 23, 2018

THE BEER BEAT: The twentieth Gravity Head begets a Pints & Union update.

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The beginnings of a bar.  The siding begins. It wasn't until a few days prior to our recent departure for Portugal that I reme...