Hip Hops: Early bird Craft Bash, 502 Beer Day & new brewpub plans
First up, let's check the Early Bird Beer Fest Watch, always a crucial task when the swallows come back to Capistrano (or the Cardinals return to newsworthiness).
The 7th annual Kentucky Craft Bash takes place...
Hip Hops: Liteweights ascendent, or the Empire of the Wet Air (1975 – 2024)
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
-- 1 Corinthians 13:11-12
American...
Hip Hops: The back story of Bock does NOT include the yearly use of...
As previously noted at F&D, you can “goat” for broke at the annual NuLu Bock and Wurst Fest, which takes up most of the day on Saturday, March 23. Meanwhile, your beer columnist's favorite...
Edibles & Potables: A Guinness in Sligo, and the Irish publican as general factotum
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.
(Today is St. Patrick's Day, 2024. The following was...
Is Guinness good for you? Stout certainly gives ME strength
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.
Before we applaud the myriad virtues of Guinness —...
Hip Hops Encore: Brian’s song will play forever more at the Hi-B Bar in...
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.
The following essay originally appeared as a "Hip Hops"...
Hip Hops: Erin Go Blagh 2024, a much needed St. Paddy’s Day etiquette primer
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.
It's been a while since I wrote about St....
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...
Hip Hops: Hew Ainslie, an early New Albany brewer, Scots nationalist and poet
("Hip Hops" appears a day early this week.)
As referenced in last week’s column, almost two centuries ago Hew Ainslie, an immigrant from Scotland, became New Albany's first known commercial brewer. If there were others...
Hip Hops: A glass of Wee Heavy, the French Riviera — and thou
Having just returned from France’s southernmost frontage on the Mediterranean Sea, an area otherwise known as the French Riviera (to English speakers; to the French, it's the Côte d'Azur), I have Wee Heavy (a.k.a....
