Hip Hops: Hew Ainslie, an early New Albany brewer, Scots nationalist and poet
("Hip Hops" appears a day early this week.)
As referenced in last week’s column, almost two centuries ago Hew Ainslie, an immigrant from Scotland, became New Albany's first known commercial brewer. If there were others...
Hip Hops: A glass of Wee Heavy, the French Riviera — and thou
Having just returned from France’s southernmost frontage on the Mediterranean Sea, an area otherwise known as the French Riviera (to English speakers; to the French, it's the Côte d'Azur), I have Wee Heavy (a.k.a....
Hip Hops: Asking for a draft beer in French, while in France
To this very day my grasp of the French language is embarrassingly inadequate, and advancing age suggests the immediate prospects for improvement are slim.
This only matters because we’re taking a holiday in France, and...
Get ready: Tim Laird and Peggy Noe Stevens offer Kentucky Derby party tips
Your daily content provider isn't by nature a Kentucky Derby aficionado in spite of having lived here his entire life.
But I appreciate all of you who are, and the value of the Derby's annual...
Hip Hops: My journey to Rogue Nation in 2006, and its present-day reinvention
At Beervana, Jeff Alworth has a great article about the current evolution of Oregon’s Rogue Ales & Spirits, which prompts my recollections: Rogue's Slow, Deliberate Reinvention.
Back in the 1980s and ‘90s, Rogue was a...
Hip Hops: How does George Orwell’s favorite pub The Moon Under Water look today?
Suddenly it dawns on me that George Orwell's most famous year is celebrating its 40th anniversary, although the book itself was first published in 1949, Of course, it's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
"Orwell’s fear, incubated during the...
“Fistful of Ale wants to reintroduce ourselves” on Thurs., Feb. 1
The Fistful of Tacos food truck debuted in 2015, and the "Fistful Family" has continued to evolve ever since, to include catering; a bricks and mortar eatery at 2708 Paoli Pike in New Albany;...
Hip Hops: Pardon the (fermentation) interruption
During the years 2009 through 2016, when I was still actively engaged in brewery ownership at the New Albanian Brewing Company (NABC), I served as a director on the board of the Brewers of...
TEN20’s tap room in Clarksville (with MozzaPi) opens on Friday, January 19
According to the Town of Clarksville, TEN20 Craft Brewery's long-gestating SoIN taproom is opening tomorrow (Friday, January 19).
https://www.townofclarksville.com/ten20-craft-brewery-preparing-to-celebrate-opening-of-new-clarksville-location/
The TEN20 taproom in Clarksville will offer both indoor and outdoor spaces with views of the Ohio...
Hip Hops: About non-alcoholic beers, and what they’re missing (or not)
Maybe that song by The Cars is more appropriate given my advocacy of Bitburger's classic entry in the non-alcoholic sweepstakes.
In January each year the nation’s collective instinct for meek submission to its prevailing style...
