Thursday, March 27, 2025

Hip Hops: Bock’s back story includes Vitus and NuLu Bock Fest, but NEVER steel...

The Spring 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands...

Hip Hops: New Albanians on a beer holiday in Old Albania (1994)

The following "old" Albanian beer-everie is excerpted from my ongoing online memoir, first appearing on July 29, 2024: 40 Years in Beer (Book II)...

Hip Hops: Pivo in Skopje with the greatest seismologist of them all (1987)

I'll grant you that portions of this story do not pertain specifically to beer, although judicious quantities of Скопско пиво (Skopsko Pivo) were consumed...

Hip Hops: Why I’m pumped about Monnik’s new Rose Hill Lager Haus

Hi, I'm Roger, an erstwhile "beer guy" charged with holding down this digital fort in quiet desperation, or something like that (the metaphors flow...

Hip Hops: San Francisco’s Toronado beer bar at the crossroads

Here's the text from Toronado's feed at Instagram. Beer Week 2025 (Feb. 7 - 16) will be a special occasion for the Toronado family. After...

Hip Hops: Trellis Brewing’s decoction, Donum Dei’s chili cookoff, plus no-jive dives (and boozers)

https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/vol_84_win_2024_/24 The Winter 2024 (Vol. 84) issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands...

The Bar Belle: “3 broads visit 3 breweries”

https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/vol_84_win_2024_/14 Our cover photo comes to us from AB InBev.  A few years ago, Sara "The Bar Belle" Havens was joined by two of her friends...

Hip Hops: Jimmy Carter’s homebrewing heroics, the state of the “craft” biz, and #PubJanuary

Cheers, and thank you to an American homebrew hero, President Jimmy Carter. His legacy will live on in every batch of beer brewed. — American...

New Year’s Eve on Swiss time at Holy Grale

Take it away, Ringo. My personal strategy for coping with the stressful demands of welcoming a new year is to be fast asleep in my...

Hip Hops: Yes, craft beer is still being “brewed for flavor and drinkability”

Lest there be any misunderstandings, allow me to begin by stressing my bona fides as they pertain to TEN20 Craft Brewery. I like it, a...