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Evan Rail

@evanrail.bsky.social

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He / him. Author of “The Absinthe Forger.” Monthly drinks columnist at VinePair, freelance contributor to the NYT, WSJ, etc. Included in Best Food Writing, The NY Times Book of Wine and elsewhere. Ran The Prague Post's food desk 2000-2006. Jdeme na jedno.

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Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 13h

That must have been a great show!

(I was just thinking about when I saw the Who in 1989 and how I thought they were old at the time. They would have been around 44 or so then, LOL.)

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David Nilsen @davidnilsenbeer.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, guess what? Final Gravity Issue 10 is now available for preorder! Tons of great articles in this one, including stories by @rebeccaoliver.bsky.social, @averykaplan.bsky.social, @jdharlock.bsky.social, @melindag.bsky.social, & others. Details here: www.beantobarstool.com/shop/p/final...

Final Gravity, A Beer Zine Issue 10 — Bean to Barstool

Final Gravity, A Beer Zine Issue 10, with articles about Our Culture Brewing, Almaza Lager, Cusqueña lager, queer beer boycotts, the Hasta La Raiz benefit beer, and much more.

www.beantobarstool.com

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Drew Warlock 🍉 iz yr deuteragonist @drew.rw · 2d

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 3d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 2d

Everything is going to hell, BUT Criterion just added a load of John Woo, Ringo Lam and Tsui Hark classics, PLUS what looks like 13 titles from John Carpenter, 2 from David Cronenberg and a bunch from Godard and Muratova. Also an array of obscure vampire movies.

Send help.

Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 5d

Same. I have to force myself to focus but it’s nigh impossible lately.

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Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 5d

The other day I saw a guy using his phone the correct way, and it was so distinctly unusual he legit looked like James Bond.

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Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 6d

Not every day I get to drink tmavé pivo from Godspeed at a bar in Prague.

A 500-ml glass filled with dark lager capped with tan foam on a counter at the bar Pult in Prague.

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Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 6d

“... but it was that beautiful cut of clouds I could always see above the little SP alley — puffs floating by from Oakland, or the gate of Marin, to the north, or San Jose, south... The clarity of Cal will break your heart.”

Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 6d

Jack Kerouac ▪︎ October in the Railroad Earth

Kerouac - October in the Railroad Earth

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Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 7d

That’s AI.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7d

MW correctly reading the room

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Will Hawkes @willhawkes.bsky.social · 9d

I've reviewed the PerfectDraft Pro. Is it as good as a pint in the pub, though? 🧐 www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d4e4c1e...

PerfectDraft Pro review: I love a pub pint – can this home draft machine live up to my standards?

As The Telegraph’s pub expert, I was surprised by the PerfectDraft Pro’s pub-quality pour

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 12d

I’m currently rewatching with my eldest (their first viewing), just finishing season 4 now. It’s pretty damn intense, including all the father-son tension.

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Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 13d

Hostomice dark lager is brewed at 14°, so…

Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 13d

Awesome, you’ll have to let me know your dates and interests. In the meantime, maybe think of these articles as me making a custom, pre-trip “Need to Know” reading list for you?

Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 13d

Similar, though that’s not the term I’d use

Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 14d

Gorgeous. (For a while they were serving it with the dark lager on the bottom because of the finishing gravity. Looks great either way, but I prefer this approach.)

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Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 14d

All-foam mlíko pours got trendy in craft beer circles. But now feels like the right time for řezané pivo, the Czech special pour layering dark and pale lagers. It’s perfect for fall.

(Illustration: 3 mugs of striped řezané pivo.)

vinepair.com/articles/rez...

After Mlíko, Could This Traditional Czech Beer Pour Be the Next Big Thing?

First came mlíko, which gave us “milk tubes,” “mlíko bombs,” and other variations on the all-foam beer serve. With bars and taprooms looking for new ways to attract customers, will the two-beer mix kn...

vinepair.com

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Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 14d

You do what now?

Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 14d

@elderberryst.bsky.social FWIW, I’m also planning to read “The Mountain in the Sea” by Ray Nayler.

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Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 14d

Books I have truly enjoyed this year:

“The Census-Taker,” China Miéville
“The Murderbot Diaries” (series), Martha Wells
“You Only Call When You’re in Trouble,” Stephen McCauley
“Little Fires Everywhere,” Celeste Ng

(I have placed a hold on the “I Cheerfully Refuse” ebook at my library. Thanks!)

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 15d

It is hardly the point but a) trans people existed in Medieval Europe, b) lots of currencies were used in Medieval Europe, not just gold, which was in fact uncommon, c) alchemy was a lot more common in early modern Europe, d) women are not a commodity you absolute weapons????

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 16d

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

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the option of interpreting the Idaho and West Virginia
statutes as motivated by the justified aim of excluding
all males from female sports, it is quite invidious to
interpret them as instead motivated by the unjustified
aim of excluding males who identify as female in par-
ticular.
Consider a simple analogy. Imagine that we are
back in Medieval Europe. Gold is the currency of the
land. Consequently, many merchants prefer to accept
gold and only gold as payment. However, a new move-
ment is afoot, whose members are known as the alche-
mists. The alchemists purport to have found a way of
turning iron pyrite (fool’s gold) into gold. Some people
are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though
many others are not. This difference in attitudes
starts to lead to time-wasting interactions in which an
alchemist or fellow traveler tries to purchase a good
using iron pyrite from a merchant who, unmoved by
well-publicized insistence on the part of the alche-
mists that only irrational prejudice could lie behind
lingering doubts about the possibility of converting
iron pyrite into gold, continues to insist on only ac-
cepting gold as payment. One such merchant, whose
unofficial working policy has hitherto been to accept
only gold as payment, decides to make his policy offi-
cial by putting up a sign on his store saying, “Only
gold accepted (no iron pyrite!).”

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Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 15d

This is a great question.

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Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 15d

Not too many folks using whole cone Saaz.

Evan Rail @evanrail.bsky.social · 15d

They had a whole thing about “hot-side aeration” as bad for a while, too, but they’ve mostly dropped it at this point. I’m guessing this was someone from Budvar?

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Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social · 19d

'Chimps consume equivalent of a beer a day in alcohol from fermented fruit' | @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Chimps consume equivalent of a beer a day in alcohol from fermented fruit

Study finds chimpanzees’ enthusiasm for guzzling ripe fruit puts their ethanol intake at about 14g per day

www.theguardian.com

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