Hip Hops: Atrium Brewing debuts in Shelby Park
F&D's Fall 2020 quarterly print issue has hit the streets, and we're all excited to be back after a pandemic hiatus.
Let's keep the beer news simple and to the point this week by welcoming...
Hip Hops: West Sixth NuLu gets under way with a window to curbside beer
It's a small step, and yet a highly anticipated one. Thirteen months ago, Lexington's West Sixth Brewing commenced work on its NuLu brewery and taproom at 821 E. Market in Louisville. Then COVID-19 got...
Hip Hops: Poperinge’s Beer and Hop Fest is postponed but not forgotten
If not for COVID19's unexpected intervention, today we’d undoubtedly be visiting friends in Haarlem, Netherlands in preparation to ride the rails south to the small Belgian city of Poperinge, and the renewal of its...
Hip Hops: Labor Day news roundup and dreams of German beer gardens
It's the Labor Day holiday, and I'm keeping the beer report short this week.
Last week Craig and Whitney Martin, beer columnists at LEO Weekly, assembled an excellent overview of Louisville metro's craft brewery scene....
Decadence, depravity, Hunter S. Thompson and a commemorative Derby beer from Flying Dog
A half-century ago, a native Louisvillian observed that the Kentucky Derby hasn't ever been exactly as it appears, and this is more accurate than ever in 2020, when the pandemic has caused the race...
Hip Hops: Rethinking Germany’s Christmas markets during a pandemic, and other musings
Kindly allow me to begin by noting that mulled wine and shots of schnapps aren't the only libations available at the typical German Christmas market. After all, it is still Germany, and usually someone...
Hip Hops: Beer most fowl, and other news items from fermentation nation
Last Wednesday Monnik Beer Co. and Falls City Brewing Co. released their collaboration batch of Black Is Beautiful, previewed here in June; as an unrelated aside, Falls City has completed its brewery expansion project,...
Hip Hops: Oktoberfest in July, Halloween in … January?
Even before climate change became a heated barstool topic back in the days when we could still sit at the bar and be topical, Ohio Valley summers were just as capable of attaining high...
Hip Hops: Mile Wide Beer Co. and the localizing of New England-style IPA
The Fall 2020 issue of Food & Dining Magazine hits the street in a few weeks.
For my Hip Hops print column in the new issue, I chatted with three Louisville brewery owners about their...
Hip Hops: Proletarian delights at the late, lamented Automat Koruna in Prague
It has been 33 years since my first visit to the country then known as Czechoslovakia. There were many more stays to follow, and a consistent theme dominates the narrative.
Yes, it's beer.
Škodas have their...
