Thursday, May 2, 2024

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: Celebrate Louisville’s newest breweries on Small Brewery Sunday

For Food & Dining Magazine's winter print edition (coming in December) I'll be taking a look at the breweries that have defied the pandemic and opened in the Louisville area in 2020. Of these,...

Hip Hops: Let’s remember Matt Gould as Hometown revives Cumberland Red

On Tuesday evening a Red Reunion took place at Hometown Brewing Company. It was a release party for the revival of Cumberland Red Ale, as appropriately described in a Louisville Ale Trail social media...

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: All is flux; nothing stays still

You’ve no doubt heard the tired old bromide: “When the going gets tough, the tough get their posteriors over to Athens, Greece for an ouzo and some grilled squid.” Excellent advice even if I never...

A new craft brewery: Our Lady of Perpetual Hops is pouring in New Albany

Our Lady of Perpetual Hops has been methodically assembling the jigsaw puzzle pieces these past two years. Now the regulatory paperwork is finished, the kegs are filled and the doors will open today at...

Hip Hops: Tell me what you remember about Fat Cat’s Deli & Pub

Talk about a buzz kill. Every time you recall a memory it has changed from the original experience. Whatever has happened since has influenced your retelling of that moment. We are not static animals; we’re...

Perhaps too little curiosity killed the HopCat (Louisville), which will close for good

On March 20 we reported all HopCat locations nationwide were closing temporarily amid pandemic food service and bar shutdowns. Earlier this afternoon, HopCat - Louisville (1064 Bardstown Road) took to social media to confirm...

Hip Hops: Dispassionate and purely objective thoughts about the Louisville Beer Hall of Fame

Objectivity is a key element of journalism, which in our contemporary era has been supplanted in large measure by advertising-supported electronic hype machines. Taking sports as an example, media coverage in the current era has...

Goodwood Brewing takes control in Jeffersonville

If you want it done right, you may need to consider doing it yourself.  The Goodwood Brewhouse & Live Room at 134 Spring Street in Jeffersonville, Indiana is closed for a short time, slated to...