Hip Hops: Make Mine Mild, and then keep ’em coming
My first immersive experience with British cask-conditioned ale came in 1998 while visiting the cities of London, Brighton and Cambridge.
One morning in the latter municipality my friends and I began exploring the lovely...
Hip Hops: Random news & notes, and why reading glasses are very important
Glancing down at my phone, I saw the daily in-box teaser from Louisville Business First, and just for a split second, I thought wow, it's yet another new brewery: "New juice, smoothie bar opening...
Hip Hops: A deeper understanding, Dry January, and sustainable careers in beer
Moravec (the tailor) put down his needle and thread, his big scissors, and the other tools of his trade, cleared the baize-colored table, spread a double sheet of newspaper on it, and laid out...
Hip Hops: Hrabal, Urquell, and the Golden Tiger’s beer cellar
“Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves...
Hip Hops: When pairing beer with food, the trick is to transcend “nationalism”
Every major industrialized nation has A BEER (you can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need A BEER).
-- Frank Zappa
With apologies to...
Hip Hops: Lager is a time machine, and I am a time traveler
When I was a boy, and my mother wasn’t looking, my father would give me sips of his favorite beer, which was a Hazy IPA brewed with experimental hops from New Zealand.
It was okay,...
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...
Hip Hops: This column has no title, just Vienna malt and a tune
During the course of exchanging texts with an old friend from out of town, he asked me a question: What's the newest, greatest and most innovative beer to grace Louisville area store shelves and...
Hip Hops: Don’t worry, be happy, because Larry found his way through the maze
In a previous life, I fancied myself a group tour operator, and for a while it worked out fairly well.
To no one’s great surprise, my bus and bicycle jaunts centered entirely on Europe and...
Hip Hops: “The Audacity of Hops,” a book as well as a statement of...
Let's begin the week with variations in the art of flag-waving.
Nothing makes me feel quite as patriotic as great beer, and unlike the customary nation-state-bound variety of patriotism, "greater planetary beerism" skips across geopolitical...
