Talk freely at a new Prohibition-era themed bar at the KFC Yum Center
A refresher course: "If it's legal, it ain't speakeasy."
Speaking factually, any "speakeasy" today, just as during Prohibition, must by definition be illegal for it...
Hip Hops: Farewell, Ron “Jolly Pumpkin” Jeffries … also, Oktoberfest styles and cheap English...
Ron Jeffries was that rarest of contemporary craft brewers, a genuine inspired innovator and mentor to a great many who followed in his footsteps....
Kyros Brewing Co. is for sale, but remains open for business
Kyros Brewing Co. (2425 Portland Ave.) in Portland, which opened in July 2023, is for sale. The timeline is open-ended: "We will remain open...
Hip Hops: A memoir — or, the beer that ignores history has no past,...
“One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary… The...
The Cocktail Contessa: Sangria recipes to keep the cheers rolling
https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/_vol_83_fall_2024/20
We'll touch the 90s again this weekend, hence the relevance of this prescient observation by Heather Wibbels in Food & Dining's current Fall 2024...
Hip Hops: Dear Monnik … look to the Czech Lands for a Highlands hospoda
Owing to the subject matter, this "Hip Hops" column supplants the usual Sunday slot for "Edibles & Potables."
You may have heard the news that...
Hip Hops: That chair, those unbreakable commie glasses, cask ale and the craft beer...
Featured photo: The fans at Mahr's in Bamberg and their Weizenbocks, 1995. Photo by the late, great George Schroeder.
The latest installment of my ongoing...
Edibles & Potables: Herring makes breakfast better
(Originally published here on May 31, 2020. When you have a craving, and there's none around ... well, at least I had the foresight...
Edibles & Potables: 30 or older age restrictions at two local bars
A teensy weensy confessional never hurt a soul.
At one point during the full flowering of my partying life during the early 1980s (as synonymous...
Hip Hops: Handbags, gladrags, weird beers and 139,351 synapses later
40 Years in Beer is a memoir of my life and times in the beer business. The first of these serialized installments came into...
