Hip Hops: An excellent day at the Augustiner in Salzburg, 2003
All this talk of snow has me recalling good times in the sunshine with beer, of course.
In 2003 I took a 27-day bicycling holiday...
Hip Hops: NABC, Hi-Wire, Noble Funk, and what’s German, anyway?
German consular official: "Yes, Mr. Baylor, we see you're requesting asylum in our country. Can you explain why you'd like to live in Germany?
Me:...
Hip Hops: On old books, new beer labels and timeless bung-starters
A fractious month of January calmed somewhat near the end, providing a relatively peaceful space to finish reading the year's opening novel: The Island...
Hip Hops: Pilsners, Trappists and Monnik
Beer headings and a few pithy comments on a rainy Monday morning ...
• Kentucky brewers want legislation to allow them to sell directly to...
Hip Hops: Flagship February celebrates “the beers that got us here”
Flagship February originated in 2019 as an effort spearheaded by beer writers Stephen Beaumont and Jay Brooks, who corralled a few of their friends...
Hip Hops: Learning about cask-conditioned “real” ale
Even in the best of times, Great Britain’s traditional pub culture is the subject of fervent, impassioned debate. Will the nation's glorious pubs survive changing...
Hip Hops: Two regional beer writers you should know
Rather than waste precious shoe leather during a pandemic, I fetched a growler of Fuller’s London Pride from my “other” workplace and devoted last...
Hip Hops: The search for the perfect “comfort” pint should last a lifetime
As regards drink, I can only say that in Dublin during the Depression when I was growing up, drunkenness was not regarded as a...
Hip Hops: Schlenkerla’s unique smoky place in the beer cosmos
Preserving tradition means to keep the fire burning, not to conserve the ashes.
– German proverb
Smoked beer (or “Rauchbier” in German) has been an obsession...
Hip Hops: Christmas beers, real or imagined, then and now
“My goodness”, muttered Claus, recalling his visit to the Institute, “the restrictive outerwear, the padded room-even padded Christmas tree ornaments. Horrifying! Yet the little...
