1987

Hip Hops: Those first-ever draft Pilsner Urquells in Prague, 1987

Do I often write about European reveries? Yes, I do. As Archie Bunker once sang, “those were the daze.”  One afternoon in August, 1987 an archaic device affixed to the wall started ringing. I lifted the plasticized receiver from its cradle, gently brushing against the numerical rotary dial. Kindly recall that we lived in caves […]

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Hip Hops: Remembering May Day in glorious Vienna, 1987

Today is May 1, or May Day, which in Europe is a traditional festival marking the beginning of summer. In addition, in a great many locales worldwide, May Day is known as International Workers’ Day. Saturday, May 3 marks the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby, which I need not explain, to be followed almost […]

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Hip Hops: Pivo in Skopje with the greatest seismologist of them all (1987)

I’ll grant you that portions of this story do not pertain specifically to beer, although judicious quantities of Скопско пиво (Skopsko Pivo) were consumed in late May of 1987, when a bumbling 26-year-old hick from somewhere near French Lick (New Albany, Indiana to be precise) found himself afoot in Yugoslavia, a nation that ceased to […]

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