Hip Hops: A consideration of beer in Croatia, as opposed to Yugoslavia
In 1987 I spent four months backpacking through Europe, of which roughly three weeks were devoted to roaming Yugoslavia, the nation in the Balkans...
Hip Hops: American Craft Beer Hall of Fame, Donum Dei’s dip & Kentucky Hop...
The new American Craft Beer Hall of Fame has announced a list of nominees from whom the Hall's inaugural class of inductees will be...
Hip Hops: Louisville Beer Week 2024 arrives NOW
Louisville Beer Week "Year 7" is about to...
(Editor's note: It seems that the pioneering observance from days of yore known as Louisville Craft Beer...
Hip Hops: Farewell, Ron “Jolly Pumpkin” Jeffries … also, Oktoberfest styles and cheap English...
Ron Jeffries was that rarest of contemporary craft brewers, a genuine inspired innovator and mentor to a great many who followed in his footsteps....
Kyros Brewing Co. is for sale, but remains open for business
Kyros Brewing Co. (2425 Portland Ave.) in Portland, which opened in July 2023, is for sale. The timeline is open-ended: "We will remain open...
Hip Hops: A memoir — or, the beer that ignores history has no past,...
“One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary… The...
Hip Hops: Dear Monnik … look to the Czech Lands for a Highlands hospoda
Owing to the subject matter, this "Hip Hops" column supplants the usual Sunday slot for "Edibles & Potables."
You may have heard the news that...
Hip Hops: That chair, those unbreakable commie glasses, cask ale and the craft beer...
Featured photo: The fans at Mahr's in Bamberg and their Weizenbocks, 1995. Photo by the late, great George Schroeder.
The latest installment of my ongoing...
Hip Hops: Handbags, gladrags, weird beers and 139,351 synapses later
40 Years in Beer is a memoir of my life and times in the beer business. The first of these serialized installments came into...
Hip Hops: Why are curated luxury beer lists so unremittingly mediocre?
It's a lovely July day for a rant, don't you think?
One thing I've always tried to do with consistency is to advocate for my...
