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.
THREE-PEAT! The coming week marks a milestone, as Four Pegs Smokehouse & Bar becomes the first three-time participant in APRON Inc.'s Chef in a Box.
Four Pegs Smokehouse & Bar is next up for APRON Inc.'s Chef in a Box...
The Irish novelist James Joyce had a way with words, as when he considered the origins of Guinness Stout in this passage from Ulysses.
-- Hurry up, Terry boy, says Alf.
Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal...
On Tuesday, Tacolicious To Go (111 W. Market in New Albany) announced that it has closed, but hopes to reopen elsewhere.
"Hello everyone, we are closing due to building and electrical issues beyond repair. We will no longer be located...
If I had a great beer yesterday but forgot to take a photograph, did I really drink it?
The last full week of August was eventful. Hi-Wire Brewing's taproom on Baxter Avenue in Louisville opened, and the new arrival's first...
During the 19th century, and especially in its later years, snacking in cemeteries happened across the United States. It wasn’t just apple-munching alongside the winding avenues of graveyards. Since many municipalities still lacked proper recreational areas, many people had...
Hip Hop Sweet Shop (1805 W. Jefferson St.) wants you to know that it will be closed temporarily for repairs and expansion, and slated for reopening on September 16.
There's more to the back story, and Eleanor Tolbert tells us...
I Love Tacos owners Ernesto Rivera and Alfredo Garcia hope to have their third restaurant up and running by November at 3550 Springhurst Commons Drive in a building that previously housed Tumbleweed.
We are a local family restaurant and we...
Citing lease issues, a Facebook post on Sunday announced the closing of Mango's Mexican Grill & Cantina (6201 Dutchmans Lane) and the prospective move of the restaurant to a new location. We await further details.
Thank you everyone for you...
The following installment of our weekly beer dialogue first appeared on August 17, 2020, and is being reheated today (bei stovetop, nicht microwave) because of two excellent reasons: (1) it remains relevant, and (2) I was busy the past...
Let's keep it brief this week and focus on an arguably unanticipated outcome of the COVID pandemic; not rampant societal incivility, but the disappearance of restaurant menus.
Dining Out, Digitized, by Sarah Holder (Bloomberg)
Many restaurants dropped printed menus during the...
