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: Gallant Fox’s expansion leads a full slate of Kentucky beer news
Baseball is back. In this flashback to 1997 (left) at the home opener of the St. Louis Cardinals, Schlafly Beer's owner Tom Schlafly made a clever point about better beer availability at the ballyard...
Hip Hops: Pursuing Żywiec Porter, 1987 – 2002 – 2018
In the spring of 2002, I chartered a minibus, and a dozen of us took a trip through Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic and Austria. It was a glorious, albeit brief glance at a...
Hip Hops: New brewery (Epiphany), new sites (AtG, Goodwood) and new Sterling
Major league baseball returned last week, and the excellent all-about-sports publication The Athletic honored the occasion with a cleverly timed and well-written beer article: "Hop prospects for Opening Weekend: The best new local brews...
Hip Hops: An unvarnished assessment of Untappd, to the bitter end
As a longtime consumer of adult libations, most often beer but occasionally sidestepping to wine and spirits, the good news is that advancing age seems to have slowed the pace of my consumption, even...
Hip Hops: Against the Grain turns 10 this year, so let’s revisit 2011
Last week I was thumbing through back issues of Food & Dining Magazine and came across our Winter 2011 edition (Volume 34), which contained my "Hip Hops" profile of a then-newly opened Against the...
Hip Hops: Upland Jeffersonville draws near, so here’s an overview
Upland Brewing Company's new (non-brewing) dispensary and restaurant in Jeffersonville was revealed to the public last December.
https://foodanddine.com/buckhead-out-upland-brewing-in-on-restaurant-row-in-jeffersonville/
Opening day is pegged for Friday, April 9th at 11:00 a.m., but the Upland story begins in Bloomington,...
Hip Hops: Erin Go Blagh, or a timeless St. Paddy’s Day reminder
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
William Butler Yeats wrote the poem Easter, 1916 as a personal response to his mixed feelings in the aftermath...
Hip Hops: The back story of Bock, because the time draws near
Is Bock the G.O.A.T.? This question has been nagging me since Jimmy Carter was in office.
All I knew for sure at the time was that Bock beers were dark, and they appeared each year...
Hip Hops: There is no envy in green beer, with one exception
Generally speaking, beer isn't the place for a Green New Deal. If you'll accept your beer colored green, is there any limit to the madness?
What's next, dry-aged Wagyu drenched in curry ketchup? Beethoven's "Appassionata"...
