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...
Edibles & Potables: Shrimp, potatoes and ale, via Belgium’s coastal “Tram 0”
This Belgian coast is hard to love and easy to scorn. It lacks the rugged profundity of Scandinavian fjords or the fractal chaos of Ireland’s Atlantic coast. Its colour palette is grey-beige and its...
Hip Hops: Falls City’s new kitchen tenant will be (envelope please) Parlour Pizza
(January 14 update: Since Kevin Gibson broke this story, the principal players have clarified the forthcoming Parlour/Falls City venture, such that a more accurate way to view the arrangement is "Parlour to open sixth...
Hip Hops: Consider supporting local breweries and pubs during Dry January
(Today's cover photo comes courtesy of Akasha Brewing Company.)
My adult beverage of choice is beer, while Louisville’s civic doctrine currently is articulated as “bourbonism.” If I'd have been raised in Bordeaux, perhaps both these...
2024 is waiting: Brass tacks, uncommon sense and hangover remedies
No alcohol is used in the preparation of drunken noodles, the spicy Thai hangover remedy (cover photo credit).
We might have a very long discussion as to the efficacy, in one of many ideal worlds,...
