Hip Hops: In my cups at the very spot where the WCTU conspired
If I had a great beer yesterday but forgot to take a photograph, did I really drink it?
The last full week of August was eventful. Hi-Wire Brewing's taproom on Baxter Avenue in Louisville opened,...
Hip Hops: Like I was saying, Oktoberfest in July, Halloween in … January?
The following installment of our weekly beer dialogue first appeared on August 17, 2020, and is being reheated today (bei stovetop, nicht microwave) because of two excellent reasons: (1) it remains relevant, and (2)...
Hip Hops: News of the Beer (with requisite editorial commentary)
Toss one out, and we'll "bat" it around...
NEWS ITEM: THANK A FARMER: Floyds Knobs farm grows hops featured in local beers, by Brooke McAfee (News and Tribune).
ROGER'S TAKE: Not a day passes without your faithful...
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: Keg Liquors changes owners, plus a round-up of local beer news
Yesterday in a message posted at his personal Facebook page, The Keg Liquors owner Todd Antz revealed the sale of his stores in Clarksville and New Albany to Southern Indiana businessman George Patel, who...
Hip Hops: Beers by the light of day
"Day drinking" is a familiar concept. Beer tends to be my libation of choice, and the act of "drinking" is understood; after all, we're not here to gaze lovingly at unopened containers as we...
Hip Hops: Archie’s axiom — or, beer’s ephemeral nature
“Let me tell you something about beer: You can never buy beer, you can only rent it.”
These words were famously uttered by Archie Bunker during Season 4 of All in the Family (circa 1973),...
Hip Hops: Jeffersontown Summer Craft Beer Fest returns July 17 — also news from...
The 6th Annual Jeffersontown Summer Craft Beer Fest is coming this Saturday, July 17. The fest returns after last's year's pandemic-mandated layoff.
Sponsored by the legal firm of Middleton Reutlinger, the festival will be held...
Hip Hops: Goodwood’s on a roll, invading both Indy and Owensboro
All three national chain brewpubs are gone now, but Alcatraz (1995-2011), Rock Bottom (1996-2020) and Ram (2000-2020) each played a demonstrable part in the reformatting of downtown Indianapolis into a convention and sports hub.
I...
Hip Hops: Is the old-school beer bar doomed? I hope not
Shippingport Brewing and its Sally Forth Taproom opened last week to much acclaim in or near Portland, depending on one's competitive feelings about Louisville geography. I believe Shippingport's birth boosts the total of functioning...
