Hip Hops: What’s Alt, doc? Akasha’s new beer, that’s what (and a 1995 flashback)
American craft brewers have proven adept at rescuing forgotten classic beer styles and reshaping them for a contemporary market. Recent examples that spring to mind include the three "gees": Gose, Grisette and Grodziskie, from...
Hip Hops: Kentucky Common should be the beer from here, right?
The legendary fictional detective Nero Wolfe was "famously loath to leave his brownstone on West 35th Street" in New York City, preferring to examine mysterious clues through deductive reasoning.
In one of author Rex Stout's...
Hip Hops: Burnt weenies, Sammy Johns, and a beer tale from 1975
Times change. So do people, and so does beer.
In retrospect, the yarn I'm about to spin almost surely will be viewed by some readers as socially, culturally or politically incorrect. I plead ambivalence. Be...
Hip Hops: BBC’s 30th; Louisville Beer Week; and a new SoIN beer festival for...
Turning to F&D's Department of Beer Festivals Past, Present and Future...Â
I. The Past: BBC turns 30.
While I concede that this event is not a "fest" as such, I attended a great many beer bashes...
Hip Hops: Martin Luther, gruit, brewer’s droop — could it be “Industrial Disease”?
Regular "Hip Hops" readers will recall that Jeff Alworth is one of my favorite beer writers. Recently Alworth reprinted an article from November 1, 2017: ALWORTH'S 9.5 THESES.
It's a playful riff on the 500th...
R.I.P. Scott Hand, head brewer at Monnik Beer Co.
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The Irish novelist James Joyce had a way with words, as when he considered the origins of Guinness Stout in this passage from Ulysses.
-- Hurry up, Terry boy, says Alf.
Terence O'Ryan heard him and...
Hip Hops: Beer to go with your Thanksgiving meal … in 2005
Revisiting one's past scribblings can be enlightening or embarrassing. Puzzlement can ensue: what was I trying (and succeeding, or failing) to say?
This act of willful rereading can cross cosmic boundaries and produce the hangover-like...
Hometown Brewing’s Foxbody 5.0 garners praise from Beer Connoisseur
Hometown Brewing Company (4041 Preston Highway) is the "house" brewery of Craft House Pizza. The story goes something like this.
Tom Brown, part-owner of the family-owned regional Hometown Pizza chain, bought the Cumberland Brews production...
Hip Hops: Eiderdown Abfahrt … Grale’s pause … Akasha-Atrium brewer switch … and more...
We've made it all the way to June, and already it appears that 2020 will go down in history as one of the nation's most momentous years. When it comes to beer and brewing,...
Donum Dei Brewery’s chili cook-off to benefit APRON
APRON will be on the agenda when New Albany's Donum Dei Brewery hosts its 3rd Annual Chili Cook-Off on Sunday, January 26 (3211 Grant Line Road #3).
3rd Annual Chili Cook-Off benefiting Apron, Inc. Suggested...
