Exile, within and without| Roger Baylor
Exile, within and without| Roger Baylor
Throughout this series, I've offered songs that I associate with the time of my first trip to Europe, and yes, I know quite well that this little ditty by Starship [...]| Roger Baylor
There was little if any Western pop music to be heard publicly in Leningrad in 1985. But this song was overheard playing on the single-channel radio set in my [...]| Roger Baylor
Accompanying these recollections of my travel year 1985 are some of the songs I kept hearing while on the road. This video features an actual library, otherwise known as [...]| Roger Baylor
The Euro ’85 Pilgrimage Compendium collects the installments of my series about “the first time” (the one you remember?) wandering the continent in 1985 with a gym bag, passport and […]| Roger Baylor
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Previously: Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025, Ch. 12: Omaha Beach to the Manneken-Pis and Little Mermaid. In retrospect, the itinerary I sketched out for the waning days of the inaugural Euro pilgrimage in [...]| Roger Baylor
Exile, within and without| Roger Baylor
Previously: Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025 Pt. 11: Sligo respite, Live Aid, then back to France for the D-Day beaches. (I’m not a Bryan Adams fan, but his song from ’85 about ’69 […]| Roger Baylor
Previously: Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 10: Irish history with musical accompaniment and a Guinness chaser. I exited the Sligo train station on a pleasant, sunny day and strolled into a settlement […]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 79: Stuck in a moment (and you can’t get out of it). Gravity? It's the law. Gravity is bigger than all of us. [...]| Roger Baylor
Exile, within and without| Roger Baylor
Van Diemen’s Land was the original name for the island of Tasmania, located 400 miles south of Melbourne, and notorious during the 1800s for its British-administered penal colonies. A significant […]| Roger Baylor
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 78: We just had to get to Merry Old England (1998). “It was from the hunt for le Baron that I first [...]| Roger Baylor
(I’m including songs I heard while moving through in Europe in 1985. I’d like to say that I recall music of local origin, but alas, my brain wasn’t always trained [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 6: Pecetto idyll, with a Parisian chaser. During my stay in Rome, a veteran Australian wanderer taught me a “wedding crasher” trick he claimed to [...]| Roger Baylor
(I'm including examples of songs I heard while in Europe in 1985. I'd like to say that I recall music of local origin, but alas, my brain wasn't always [...]| Roger Baylor
Exile, within and without| Roger Baylor
Musical introduction, or "the songs I heard playing in 1985 as I traveled around Europe." I had no Walkman or radio of my own, so the urban environment provided the [...]| Roger Baylor
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
Introduction to the 2025 Edition 1984 gets all the ink, but it was the year 1985 that changed me forever. There was no keeping me down on the farm after [...]| 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
Many months ago it dawned on me that the Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America event would be in Indianapolis this year. It officially concluded on May Day, but the after-parties [...]| 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
(Updated on May 13, 2025) 40 Years in Beer is a memoir of my life and times in the beer business. The first of these serialized installments came into being [...]| Roger Baylor
Regular readers know that my "day job" is at Food & Dining Magazine, where responsibilities have expanded over the years from writing a quarterly print edition beer column ("Hip Hops") [...]| 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
On Sunday, Pints&union took to the airwaves for a final round of self-congratulation before decamping for Louisville. From beginning to end, the symmetry between Joe's abandonment of New Albany [...]| 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
