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Baylor on Beer, The Potable Curmudgeon October 1, 2012

The Last Round’s on Us

It is uncharacteristic of Matt Gould that his passing came just as Louisville Craft Beer Week hit critical mass. That’s because Matt wouldn’t have wanted us to make a fuss. Quite a few local craft beer lifers didn’t even know he had been gravely ill, or for how long. He’d surely say the show could [...]

Jackson, Louisville, and the Color Red

It’s an old story, but one I delight in retelling, and Louisville Craft Beer Week strikes me as the perfect time to do so. Michael Jackson unexpectedly visited the former Rich O’s Public House in November, 1994, a tad more than two years after we opened. If I hadn’t been drinking for much of the [...]

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Baylor on Beer, The Potable Curmudgeon September 1, 2012

Unsuited for Suits

Cargo shorts – check. Underwear? Just the cleanest pair, I suppose. Beer-related tees … well, with only 150 to choose from, the top of the stack will do. Sandals this time? Nah, just sneakers. Throw in my wallet, iPhone and a Sharpie, and it’s off to the daily grind. When the Woodstock Music & Art [...]

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Baylor on Beer, The Potable Curmudgeon August 15, 2012

Where is Winona, anyway?

Over a quarter-century of the Great Taste of the Midwest’s evolution, during which I’ve had the sheer pleasure of attending six, this legendary beer festival in Madison, Wisconsin, has evolved into one of those signature “tale of the tape” events. Give or take five hours, a couple dozen portable johns, 140 breweries, 500 sticks of [...]

The World According to Spike

I was looking through some old files and discovered the following essay, which was written … well, you’ll just have to read it first, and then I’ll reveal the date. — “Rog, the beer business just isn’t fun any more. This used to be a people business. Now it’s all about market shares and buy-outs.” [...]

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Baylor on Beer, The Potable Curmudgeon July 15, 2012

Daze of Rage

I’m often asked to provide advice to aspiring entrepreneurs, which can be a comical experience – for me, if not them. After all, as with most other entrepreneurs, most of what I’ve managed to do while “in business” is to have created a job description that applies only to me, and to perform these tailor-made [...]

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Baylor on Beer, The Potable Curmudgeon July 1, 2012

Are you drinking locally?

Occasionally I’m accused by my critics (oddly, a handful remain) of having an insufficient social conscience, in the sense of my always preaching about beer when more important issues beg to be addressed. With specific reference to my workplace in downtown New Albany, this criticism sometimes is extended to encompass the relatively sudden growth of [...]

Missing Michael

June 25 marks three years since the American entertainer Michael Jackson died. In another two months, it will have been five years since the passing of Michael Jackson, the British beer writer. I’m forever willing to concede that it’s a chronologically relative kind of thing, and yet I never accepted the “King of Pop” tag [...]

Domestic? Yes and no.

Ever since Anheuser-Busch was folded into the international monolith currently known as AB-Inbev, there has been no single polemical activity quite as entertaining as reminding flag-waving, chest-thumping, God-fearing patriots that their carbonated urine of choice no longer emanates from an American-owned brewery. Rather, it has become the possession of a dastardly multinational conglomerate. That’s right: [...]

Permanent Olfactory Revolution

Near the end of April, NABC’s team gathered to brew our first-ever two batches of German-style wheat ale, and I’m happy to report that neither of them is representative of the standard, everyday Hefe-Weizen formulation. If so, I’d have to shoot myself. One is a Heller Weizen Maibock called HellBock, and the other a Weizen [...]