Hip Hops: Bock, in NULU or elsewhere
"The term 'NULU' is a portmanteau meaning 'New Louisville'. As home to the greenest commercial building in Kentucky, many historic restoration projects, as well...
Hip Hops: On artificial beer intelligence, BrewDog’s groper-in-chief, and a hop fest delayed
According to Britannica, artificial intelligence (AI) is "the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
