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Josh Noel

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Author of “Malört: The Redemption of a Revered and Reviled Spirit” and “Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out: Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch and How Craft Beer Became Bug Business.” Working on the next one.

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Police Who Once Backed ICE’s Mission Are Losing Faith in Its Tactics In Minnesota and places where agents are deployed en masse, law-enforcement leaders are challenging whether they are adhering to the stated mission. ICE says its operations are lawful and targeted.

www.wsj.com/us-news/poli...

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What the U.S. has become.

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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

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Josh Noel Malört: The Redemption of a Revered and Reviled Spirit will be released Sept. 3, 2024

It did! You are 100% correct. Check out my book (it’s explained in there toward the end) www.joshnoel.net/malort-book

25.12.2025 04:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

After the two minute warning, you never know what’s gonna happen.

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“Malört: The Redemption of a Revered and Reviled Spirit” was shortlisted by the @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social for its 2025 Chicago Review of Books (CHIRBy) Awards amid some excellent company 🙏🏽🙏🏼🙏🏾

02.10.2025 23:03 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Remember when you had to look in the newspaper to see what time a movie was showing at the theater — which was the only place where movies were shown? Damn those were the days. Wish Gen Z could have experienced that.

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Crazy how much some of those guys look alike.

27.08.2025 01:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thread 🤝

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And thank you for sharing these thoughts! Glad you enjoyed the tale 🍻

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No but a Honkers in the *old* Goose Clybourn doesn’t sound bad!

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Do you ever think of a brewery that closed and get a little bummed you can’t sit in that taproom again? That just happened to me.

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Block Club doing what it does best

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That said, Pliny on draft at SFO rules.

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After 10 days in Northern California I’m firmly in the Blind Pig > Pliny camp.

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FACT

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WOW. Pour one out for a legend. What a special place. And factored big in the Malört narrative!

Had its run. Onward. chicago.eater.com/closings/160...

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Always amazed how much tastier it is on draft. Just perfect.

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Spotted Cow on draft 👑

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Herbie Hancock’s fusion period will save us.

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Trump: “I want to just say, we love you God”

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Cable “news” is absolute trash. Don’t even waste my time on it anymore.

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Wordle 1,460 2/6

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Never seen this one before

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Page One in Des Moines.

@jemsinger.bsky.social

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The pope being from Chicago only gets funnier as time goes on.

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The cover of Josh's Malort book, with the Malort logo partially replaced with a pope hat

The cover of Josh's Malort book, with the Malort logo partially replaced with a pope hat

Quick, rush out a new cover

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BLESSINGS

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Book sales about to explode, thank you Catholic Church.

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It’s weird and obnoxious

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