Roger Baylor
(Web Editor / Columnist / Feature Writer) An entrepreneur, educator, and innovator with more than a quarter-century of hands-on experience and expertise as a brewer, restaurateur, and commentator. As the leader of New Albany’s Sportstime Pizza/Rich O’s Public House (which later became New Albanian Brewing Company), Baylor played a seminal role in Louisville’s craft beer renaissance. Currently, he is the beer director at Pints&union in New Albany. Baylor’s “Hip Hops” columns on beer-related subjects have been a fixture in F&D since 2005, and he was named the magazine's digital editor in 2019.
Juzo Itami’s 1985 film Tampopo has been called “the world’s first Ramen Western.” It is an innovative light comedy and a loving paean to the ceaseless pursuit of noodles and tonkatsu.
Luckily for those Louisvillians who join Itami in sitting...
The New Albanian Brewing Company (NABC) has announced that its ten-year-old New Albanian Bank Street Brewhouse at 415 Bank Street in downtown New Albany will close, effective May 25.
The shuttering of the production brewery at Bank Street Brewhouse enables...
Cincinnati based Skyline Chili is offering a free coney Thursday to kick off the season for their hometown Cincinnati Reds.
Opening Day for the Cincinnati Reds is Thursday, March 28, and you can visit any participating Louisville area Skyline Chili...
Perhaps the most important thing you need to know about Tony Palombino is his extraordinary ability to see what isn’t there.
For two decades, Louisville’s resident restaurant conjurer has been plucking creative concepts from the gloaming and bringing them to...
Some of us want to perform on stage, while others would rather coordinate the performance. Mimi Dabbagh has excelled at August Moon by selflessly setting the table with the timeless cuisine of business partner Peng Looi. Now, digging a...
HopCat is a beer bar like the Rolling Stones are a rock band and LeBron James is a basketball player. Simple descriptions don’t always tell the whole story.
In fact, HopCat is a craft beer conundrum. It’s a growing Midwestern...
You’ll hear one sort of pitch at a sales meeting, and see another thrown during a baseball game, but brewer’s pitch is completely different. Brewer’s pitch is a resinous substance used to line wooden barrels so liquid doesn’t come...
It is a deceptively simple notion to modify the flavor of beer by aging it in Bourbon barrels. Just as char and time transform simpler corn-based spirits into a sipper’s elixir, so a barrel’s second use with beer can...
People who know me won’t be surprised by the analogy that came to mind as I sat down to sample Ballotin Chocolate Whiskey, a new product from a veteran of the local distilling industry. What jumped into my head was the rabbit-duck illusion, an ambiguous 19th-century German drawing depicting a rabbit that, if you look again, looks like a duck, or a duck, if you blink, that resembles a rabbit. Which creature is it? Read more...
In 1906, thirsty residents of New Albany had the choice of three local breweries to visit when it came time to refill pails gone dry.
Paul Reising’s plant was the granddaddy of them all, taking up a whole West End...
