Hip Hops: A few instructive beers in Ostrava in 1989
For me, drinking beer is not a performative exercise, even if cameos are allowed. Rather, my enjoyment of the brewer’s art tends to the...
R.I.P. Scott Hand, head brewer at Monnik Beer Co.
The Irish novelist James Joyce had a way with words, as when he considered the origins of Guinness Stout in this passage from Ulysses.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
