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Josh Noel

@joshnoel.bsky.social

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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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Josh Noel @joshnoel.bsky.social · 2d

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

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11d

it blows my mind that anyone is still pretending like trump is anything but a dictator, here is steve bannon talking about how they, in clear and certain terms, intends to install trump as president in 2028

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Josh Noel @joshnoel.bsky.social · Oct 2

“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 🙏🏽🙏🏼🙏🏾

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Josh Noel @joshnoel.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

Josh Noel @joshnoel.bsky.social · Aug 27

Crazy how much some of those guys look alike.

Josh Noel @joshnoel.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thread 🤝

R Beda @rbeda.bsky.social · Aug 6

I read an entire book on the history of Malört and I am now a super fan, AMA (“Malört, the redemption of a revered and reviled spirit” by Josh Noel)

Josh Noel @joshnoel.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

Josh Noel @joshnoel.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

Josh Noel @joshnoel.bsky.social · Aug 6

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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Josh Noel @joshnoel.bsky.social · Aug 3

Block Club doing what it does best

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · Aug 3

Chicago performer’s Terrible Portrait drawings have become a hit.

Logan Square farmers market attendees are flocking to a table in the boulevard to have their portrait drawn by Jacob Ryan Reno for $5 — and he’s “bewildered” as to why.

"I have no plan to get better." blockclubchi.co/46y1smc

Josh Noel @joshnoel.bsky.social · Aug 1

That said, Pliny on draft at SFO rules.

Josh Noel @joshnoel.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

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Josh Noel @joshnoel.bsky.social · Jul 15

FACT

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Josh Noel @joshnoel.bsky.social · Jun 27

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...