When it comes to preaching the gospel of real beer, the truth can be revealed to you in the unlikeliest of places … and by the least expected of messe...

How many furlongs to Leuven?
I freely admit to getting no kick out of juleps. Horse pimps don’t thrill me at all, and the fireworks during Flatulence Over Louisville are an excell...

Light beer? It’s from right here.
In 1909, the German-language Louisville Anzeiger newspaper praised Augustus Tusch of neighboring New Albany. “Herr Tusch is a lager brewer of great re...

Semantics, Dialectics and Devilry
You know it’s going to be a rough day when there hasn’t even been enough time to make coffee, and you’ve already seen a note like this one at Beerpuls...

Bats, Baseball, Beers & Bucks
Professional baseball’s spring training is underway, and it isn’t too early to begin considering the prospects for locally brewed craft beer at Louisv...

From Cassel to New Albany
Three of us were struggling up a fairly steep incline, our creaking rental bicycles squeaking and straining over ascending cobblestones. As a proponen...

Passing on collecting
I used to be a beer collector, but nowadays, I’d rather just drink a few good beers, tell stories, and listen to tales from other beer drinkers. For m...

Back Into the Future
Earlier in the week, I went for a refreshingly brisk walk in the cold winter’s rain. On the way back from downtown New Albany, I took the shortcut hom...

Questions for the revolution?
When it comes to beer, I’ve sworn off end-of-the-year lists, enumerations and reflections, primarily because the sheer volume of great beers and wonde...

Of Beer and the Pissoir
(My last visit to Bavaria was Christmas, 2009, during which time the excerpts from the following appeared in LEO) Any farm boy can tell you what happe...