Bourbon News & Notes: Woodford Reserve’s Kentucky Derby Mint Julep; also Locust Grove and...
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – 7 August, 2020, by Susan Reigler
Locust Grove’s Punch Bowl IV
Locust Grove house museum, last home of Louisville founder and Revolutionary War hero, Gen. George Rogers Clark, has reopened for...
Hip Hops: Proletarian delights at the late, lamented Automat Koruna in Prague
It has been 33 years since my first visit to the country then known as Czechoslovakia. There were many more stays to follow, and a consistent theme dominates the narrative.
Yes, it's beer.
Škodas have their...
Bourbon News & Notes: Spirits of French Lick, Barrell Craft Dovetail, and Volare’s Brooklyn...
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – 31 July, 2020, by Susan Reigler
Spirits of French Lick Distillery Launches Private Barrel Selection Program
Spirits of French Lick Distillery in West Baden Springs, Indiana is a small operation producing...
Hip Hops: Local beer thoughts prefacing a potentially stormy Monday
The weather authorities say there might be rain later this afternoon. Louisville's food and drink community is expecting more than thunderstorms.
"Gov. Andy Beshear says he will announce further steps on Monday to try to...
Bourbon News & Notes: Mask up for bourbon; Boone County Distilling; Bourbon Women SIP...
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – 24 July, 2020, by Susan Reigler
Boone County Distilling Co. Adding an Event Center
Northern Kentucky’s Boone County Distilling Co. in Independence is one of the state’s craft distilleries. Until now,...
Hip Hops: Two good beer guys on the edge, and their podcast
Ugh. Readers, how about a (real) beer for a change? Now if you'll excuse me, a nice hot shower.
Last November beer writers John Holl and Andy Crouch launched Beer Edge, "offering a multimedia platform...
Bourbon News & Notes: BBC’s 100% Kentucky whiskey; Oxmoor Virtual Bourbon; and Willett’s Harvest...
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – 17 July, 2020, by Susan Reigler
Bardstown Bourbon Company is Aging a 100% Kentucky Whiskey
While most Kentucky distilleries source the majority, if not all, of their corn for making bourbon...
Hip Hops: When craft beer in cans became a thing
Dipping into the archive this morning, here's a Hip Hops column I wrote in 2010, when craft beer in a can was both uncommon and subject to a good many knee-jerk reactions on the...
Bourbon News & Notes: Buffalo Trace’s charity barrel, Old Tub from Beam, and a...
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – 10 July, 2020, by Susan Reigler
Buffalo Trace’s Six Millionth Barrel Raises More than $1 Million for Charities
Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort is the site of the world’s smallest whiskey...
Afternoon Archive: “Four Roses Blossoms Again” (2017)
As the digital editor's personal testament, this Food & Dining Magazine article by Carla Carlton resolved a longstanding quandary. During my earliest European travels during the 1980s, I'd see bottles of Four Roses straight...
