In his autobiographical book, “The Factory of Facts,” the Belgian-American writer Luc Sante recalls the drab post-WW II industrial reality of his chil...
Gravity’s Rogue
At New Albanian Brewing Company (NABC) we have a peculiar annual institution known as Gravity Head, and with the 15th version currently underway, I’m ...
Tom Long is Full of Something, and it Ain’t Craft Beer
Years before most of us were born, there was an Englishman named Eric Blair, who is better known by his pen name, George Orwell. During a lifetime cut...
Getting Our Shift Together
Political stump speeches differ very little from religious sermons, and that’s probably why we call it a bully pulpit, not a milk crate. However, a so...
Take It Off! Take It Off!
As if you hadn’t already noticed, I’m a beer-loving and occasionally wine-dabbling habitué of all manner of bars, pubs, taverns and adult watering sta...
Here’s what you can do with your Westvleteren
Give me that old-time religion, Give me that old-time religion, Give me that old-time religion, It’s good enough for me. The merits of old-t...
Get Back to Where I Once Belonged
The Jeopardy category today is Time Passages, and the answer (for a whole sawbuck) is this: “The years 1982, 1983 and 1984.” Did you guess the questio...
Localism + Beer
Preface: I’ve been writing quarterly Hip Hops columns for Food and Dining magazine since at least 2005, and on scattered occasions, one of these piece...
Drink, Smoke and Enjoy
Tolerable front porch weather resumed in September this year, and temperate temps lasted well into October. Suddenly, as though gripped by an obscure ...
Tastes Like Coffee, Just Different
(Note: Roger has decided to keep his moniker from his other blog. So from now on “Baylor on Beer” will be known as “The Potable Cur...