@joshnoel.bsky.social
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.
What the U.S. has become.
25.01.2026 03:02 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
31.12.2025 17:00 — 👍 13114 🔁 4267 💬 126 📌 290It 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 📌 0After the two minute warning, you never know what’s gonna happen.
02.11.2025 04:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“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 📌 0Remember 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.
04.09.2025 12:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Crazy how much some of those guys look alike.
27.08.2025 01:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thread 🤝
06.08.2025 03:02 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And thank you for sharing these thoughts! Glad you enjoyed the tale 🍻
06.08.2025 03:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No but a Honkers in the *old* Goose Clybourn doesn’t sound bad!
06.08.2025 01:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Do 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.
06.08.2025 00:20 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Block Club doing what it does best
03.08.2025 23:11 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That said, Pliny on draft at SFO rules.
01.08.2025 21:16 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0After 10 days in Northern California I’m firmly in the Blind Pig > Pliny camp.
01.08.2025 02:14 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1FACT
15.07.2025 01:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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...
Always amazed how much tastier it is on draft. Just perfect.
26.06.2025 23:29 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Spotted Cow on draft 👑
26.06.2025 23:28 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Herbie Hancock’s fusion period will save us.
23.06.2025 14:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trump: “I want to just say, we love you God”
22.06.2025 02:08 — 👍 1735 🔁 283 💬 692 📌 344Cable “news” is absolute trash. Don’t even waste my time on it anymore.
22.06.2025 02:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Wordle 1,460 2/6
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Never seen this one before
Page One in Des Moines.
@jemsinger.bsky.social
The pope being from Chicago only gets funnier as time goes on.
10.05.2025 01:44 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The cover of Josh's Malort book, with the Malort logo partially replaced with a pope hat
Quick, rush out a new cover
08.05.2025 22:00 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0BLESSINGS
08.05.2025 21:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Book sales about to explode, thank you Catholic Church.
08.05.2025 21:26 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1It’s weird and obnoxious
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