Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 77: A “tight” 1998 European summer (San Fermin & the French Alps). The whole point of convening in the French Alps was to [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 76: A boy can dream – about beercycling (and a Requiem for Moose). Authors note: My installments have gotten just a bit out [...]| Roger Baylor
In October, just after we returned from vacation, I dropped into Pints&union early one evening for a beer with my old pals Steve Crull and Terry Hollen. I was delighted [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 72: Mitch Steele attends a F.O.S.S.I.L.S. meeting (1998). I cannot recall the specific impetus for creating the most renowned iteration of the [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 71: A-B, Molotov cocktails, Mitch Steele and me (G.A.B.F., 1997 & 1998). On November 8, 1998, something I thought would never happen [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 64: The 2,301 day McOldenberg Brewmall 1990s vigil. Faithful “40 Years” readers will recall my first-ever visit to Bamberg, Germany in 1991 alongside [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 70: Made-for-megabrewing stylelessness at the G.A.B.F. in 1997. Quite apart from the attractions built into the Great American Beer Festival during the [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 69: Spring Break in 1997 with the classic Central European brewers. Apparently 1997 was a stable year at Rich O’s Public House [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 68: The advent of the ACBHOF (2024) recalls a diminuendo in BREW (1996). As a prelude to this recap of the 1997 [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 67: Yuletide atrocities, courtesy of the Butt-Head Bass Quartet (1994 – 2003). Disclaimer: There aren't any surviving photos from this period that seem [...]| Roger Baylor
It usually surprises people to learn that I’ve lived in Floyd County, Indiana my entire life, and in New Albany since the early 1990s. Europe may be my spirit continent, [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 66: The Updated Good Beer Guide to Louisville (1996). We shouldn’t attempt to fashion the elusive silk purse from a sow’s ear, [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 43: Facing the music at Rich O’s in 1992. By the late summer of 1992, a routine had settled into place at Rich [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 56: Michael Jackson’s 1994 visit to Louisville — BBC, the Silo, Rich O’s. “When one thirsts for a glass of wine or a [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 65: Smoky treats, a 9-hour, 9-brewery, 9-beer Bamberg stroll in 1996. The 1996 F.O.S.S.I.L.S. Membership Directory Issue (#66 & 67; March/April 1996) comprised [...]| Roger Baylor
"Get Out and Stay Out" was recorded for the 1979 Quadrophenia film soundtrack and wasn't part of the original album in 1973. That's Kenney Jones on drums, Keith Moon having [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 45: The Silo and Oertels, as well as a pivotal newspaper article (1992). There were two trips by plane, separated by twenty years. [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 44: Life becoming a landslide (1992-93). Author's note: I've chosen to keep this installment as a single post rather than splitting it [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 46: Expansion culminating in espresso and the Red Room in 1993. Our “special vacation” in 1993 (as you might guess, the more [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 55: Cerveza in the afternoon at Pamplona’s Fiesta de San Fermín. I fly to America every other month on average. I have [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 54: New Albanians on beer holiday in Old Albania (1994). Albania was exhilarating and exhausting. For the next leg of Euro ’94, the [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 53: The birth of Samichlaus at Zürich’s classic Brauerei Hürlimann (1994). Our flight from Zürich to Tirana got into the air, and I [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 52: “Anheuser-Busch, Gone Home,” our classic 1997 victory lap. I'm devoting a great many words to 1993 and 1994. There is a reason [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 51: Papazian sidesteps AB vs. Budvar by prohibiting FOSSILS from quoting him. As of 2024, the trademark war between the American and Czech [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 50: Papazian goes AWOL as we contest AB’s aggression against Budvar. Around the same time in 1994 that I began risking charges of [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 49: Bluegrass Brewing Co. — an ideal brewpub? Also, the Lite-Free Zone. Beer was simpler in 1989, when my friend George’s uncle in [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 48: F.O.S.S.I.L.S. newsletter antics, Typo’s Brewpub, and True Beer Freedom. Author's note: No images this time, just words. The featured photo of [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 47: A “special vacation” with Kölsch, Altbier and Roggenbier (1993). During the decade of the 1990s, the F.O.S.S.I.L.S. homebrewing and beer appreciation club [...]| Roger Baylor
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Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 41): Just a singer in a rock and roll band (1992). And so it came to pass that during high summer of [...]| Roger Baylor
