Category Archives: Men’s Journal

June 8, 2010

Summer is Another Word for Beer [Down-Time]

Here, two quick recent hits of mine on summer beers from the latest edition of Men’s Journal. Rare Brews: Two exquisite craft beers, made only once a year Firestone: Walker Solace Hybrids of odd styles are popping up across the country, … Continue reading →

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August 1, 2009

Strange Brew in the Executive Branch [Now We're Talking]

  Let posterity show that the last week of July, 2009, beer and its mythical powers to unite the irreconcilable became the number one conversation in America. Earlier this week I got an email I won’t soon forget, from NIGHTLINE, … Continue reading →

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November 18, 2008

A Toast To Thirst

This week’s New Yorker features an unexpected treat by staff writer Burkhard Bilger. Call it the Barack Obama of beer articles: a ten-page analysis of the craft beer industry—and one of its provocateurs, Sam Calagione, of Dogfish Head—that sucker punches conventional … Continue reading →

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September 22, 2008

Raise a Glass to Fall [Diversions]

  The sky may be falling on Wall Street, but we’ll always have beer. It makes us happy; it’s inexpensive; it’s readily available. What’s not to like? And fall is an especially good time to drink it. The Great American … Continue reading →

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July 9, 2008

Life Imitates Art [Flyers' Remorse]

From the first page of the recent and much-lauded Jonny Miles debut novel “Dear American Airlines” (Houghton Mifflin) any weary traveler worth his industrial-strength earplugs will surely nod in baleful agreement with Miles’ assessment of the scabrous conditions considered normal … Continue reading →

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January 14, 2008

Calling The Colossus

  The news that Sir Edmund Hillary had died of a heart attack at the age of 88 on Thursday in New Zealand didn’t particularly come as a shock to me—I’d been afraid of hearing the news since reading of his failing … Continue reading →

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