Beers I Like, and Why

Beers I Like, and Why

  Accounting for My Tastes in Beer It’s axiomatic that we drink what we like. But what shapes our tastes? And how do we account for our tastes in beer? In the first part of these reflections, I considered taste on a general level before 

Accounting for My Tastes in Beer

Accounting for My Tastes in Beer

  In between evenings of losing myself in my annual “big book” (Don Quixote this year), I’ve been reading Terry Theise’s What Makes Wine Worth Drinking: In Praise of the Sublime. Theise makes a compelling case that people who write about wine or who sell 

Beer and Pandemics 101: Support Your Local Brewery

Beer and Pandemics 101: Support Your Local Brewery

Never in recent memory has the phrase “support your local brewery” meant more than it does now. I published an article in the local newspaper a week ago about the inaugural Oklahoma Craft Beer Awards. It began like this: “Oklahoma may have been a craft 

A Lexicon of German Beer Culture

A Lexicon of German Beer Culture

Writing about the history and culture of beer in Central Europe invariably involves acts of translation — not only translation of the German-language sources that I read, but also translation in a broad sense. The Russian linguist Roman Jakobson identified three modes of translation, including 

Beer Tales from Bavaria

Beer Tales from Bavaria

People and personalities. It’s the reason I love beer travel so much. I’ve met people from all walks of life in North America and Europe since starting this blog, be it folks who have left comfortable careers to follow the siren call of the brewhouse,