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Dizzy Dean and me

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

The first beer I drank was probably a Falstaff. I say “probably” because there’s been a lot of suds under the bridge since then. I could be mistaken.
However, Falstaff certainly was one of my earliest favorites. It was a light, nonassertive brew, sort of like water filtered through a loaf of stale bread. … No wait. [...]


My blog, my rules

Friday, March 27th, 2009

I didn’t expect to make a policy on comments so soon; I really didn’t anticipate that a blog about beer would generate any.
However, my last post attracted a sufficient number of a certain type of comment to compel me to action.
This is my blog, and I make the rules.
So, the rules for comments are as [...]


Oh, good lord

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Did you see the news item about the student protest this week at Anderson University?
In case you missed it, here’s the thumbnail version: Students at Anderson University can’t drink alcohol. Not even if they are 21. Not even if they are off campus. To do so and be discovered is to be subject to disciplinary [...]


About the name

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

“What’s on Tap,” the name of this blog at indianabrew.com, is not a question. It is an invitation to a world of beer largely lost to Americans after Prohibition and not fully reclaimed until the craft brewing revolution of the 1990s. It is a world where choices are limited only by individual imagination.
I have a long, personal [...]


If I live long enough

Friday, March 20th, 2009

There’s a Web site in the links list on this blog — http://beerme.com — that claims to have information on more than 23,607 different beers (as this is written).
I didn’t verify that by counting the individual entries, but I did do some math, and what I came up with was pretty sobering.
If I drank one different beer [...]




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