Hip Hops: Let’s remember Matt Gould as Hometown revives Cumberland Red
On Tuesday evening a Red Reunion took place at Hometown Brewing Company. It was a release party for the revival of Cumberland Red Ale, as appropriately described in a Louisville Ale Trail social media...
Hip Hops: A Guinness in Sligo, or the Irish publican as “general factotum”
“The publican was the man who christened them, married them, and buried them, the local people,” said John O’Dwyer, a Dublin publican, in Dublin Pub Life and Lore.
In July of 1985, I hopped a train...
Kentucky’s distillers, wineries and breweries may now ship directly to consumers
The Kentucky Distillers' Association (KDA) shares encouraging news from the Kentucky General Assembly last week: the successful passage of House Bill 415, the producer-only direct-to-consumer shipping bill.
KDA APPLAUDS PASSAGE OF HB 415 SHIPPING BILL...
Easy Entertaining— Cooking with Bourbon
With the growing emphasis on using local ingredients whenever possible in cooking, it is only natural that restaurant chefs would experiment with uses for Bourbon, a local product with a long and storied history...
Simple guidelines for better coffee at home
We’ve all had that magical moment when at a coffeehouse, a neighborhood diner or an upscale dinnerhouse, you tipped up your coffee mug or cup and were introduced to that very special memory of...
Celebrate local brewers during Craft Beer Week
Craft beer Week, the celebration of the local brewers’ art and science, runs from today, Sept 11 through Sunday, Sept. 20 – a very long week, no matter how you parse it, but that...
Hip Hops: Brown bars, snowed-in pubs, Kingfish at OLPH and Winterfest in Indy
“Come, Ahab’s compliments to ye; come and see if ye can swerve me. Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me? The path to my fixed...
Trisha Torpey / Against the Grain Wins NuluDays Cocktail Challenge; Get All Recipes Here
In November, we shared 10 Four Roses cocktails you could judge during the 4th Annual NuLuDays Holiday Cocktail Challenge. Local mixologist Trisha Torpey of Against the Grain has been named the winner for the second year in...
Hip Hops: Shippingport Brewing opens, and beer festivals return
At some point early last week Shippingport Brewing Company slid with stealth down the slipway, opening for business at 1221 W. Main Street.
Shippingport Brewing and the Sally Forth Taproom are in the Portland neighborhood...
Bourbon News & Notes: MGP gets Luxco, a Woodford Reserve chocolate pairing, Double Eagle...
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 5 February 2021, by Susan Reigler
News from MGP
MGP Ingredients in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, near Cincinnati, Ohio, is the largest distillery of which you have never heard. While it...
