Edibles & Potables: A Guinness in Sligo, and the Irish publican as general factotum
The Spring 2024 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
(Today is St. Patrick's Day, 2024. The following was...
Is Guinness good for you? Stout certainly gives ME strength
The Spring 2024 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
Before we applaud the myriad virtues of Guinness —...
Hip Hops Encore: Brian’s song will play forever more at the Hi-B Bar in...
The Spring 2024 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
The following essay originally appeared as a "Hip Hops"...
Hip Hops: Erin Go Blagh 2024, a much needed St. Paddy’s Day etiquette primer
The Spring 2024 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
It's been a while since I wrote about St....
Donum Dei Brewery, Bayou Butcher Shop and Drunken Unicorn 2024 (Mar. 16 & 17)
The Spring 2024 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
Donum Dei Brewery, an established New Albany brewery and...
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...
