Recalling the Louisville beer scene, 28 years ago
Since I began offering digital "Hip Hops" musings a few years back, this consideration of a pre-Civil War (1857) imported beer list offered by a top hotel eatery right here in Louisville is among...
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...
The demise of Flat12 Bierwerks Jeffersonville is a reflection of craft beer’s growing pains
Food & Dining Magazine has learned that Flat12 Bierwerks Jeffersonville (130 W. Riverside Dr.) is closed for good after a final day of business on Friday, December 20. This news seems simple enough, although...
Edibles & Potables: 30 or older age restrictions at two local bars
A teensy weensy confessional never hurt a soul.
At one point during the full flowering of my partying life during the early 1980s (as synonymous with my early twenties), I was banned from two New...
Hip Hops: Louisville Beer Week 2024 arrives NOW
Louisville Beer Week "Year 7" is about to...
(Editor's note: It seems that the pioneering observance from days of yore known as Louisville Craft Beer Week has been somewhat unceremoniously consigned to the dustbin of...
Hip Hops: A 1987 visit to Munich’s legendary Mathäser Bierstadt, Part Two
The short video embedded here, as shot at Munich's Mathäser Bierstadt in 1989, is simply amazing. When I shared it with Dick Nixon, he became emotional. So did I.
Last week in Part One, I...
The Cocktail Contessa: Sangria recipes to keep the cheers rolling
https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/_vol_83_fall_2024/20
We'll touch the 90s again this weekend, hence the relevance of this prescient observation by Heather Wibbels in Food & Dining's current Fall 2024 print edition.
Summer’s heat lasts long throughout the season in Louisville,...
Hip Hops: Dear Monnik … look to the Czech Lands for a Highlands hospoda
Owing to the subject matter, this "Hip Hops" column supplants the usual Sunday slot for "Edibles & Potables."
You may have heard the news that Monnik Beer Co. (Schnizelburg's oldest brewery) will be moving into...
Bourbon: “Winning whiskeys and what’s on the bourbon horizon”
https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/vol_84_win_2024_/16
F&D's Sara Havens surveys the bourbon scene.
Trying to stay on top of all the new bourbon and whiskey releases is damn near impossible, but I can say without a doubt I tried my best to...
The Bar Belle: “Can the Bar Belle go bougie? Hold my beer”
https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/summer_2024_vol_82_/16
The editor feels obliged to define a term before introducing the topic of the day, primarily because folks as old as me actually remember who Karl Marx was.
This definition comes from Preply.
Bougie (Pronounced: /bu.ʒi/)...
