Hip Hops: Louisville Beer Week approaches (Oct. 23 – 30)
Unless you care a jot for Carlos Brito (I don't), then we can begin and end this week's clipboard with the welcome news that...
Aiding voter registration, Mile Wide Beer Co. releases “I Voted Today” Pale Ale
Strictly speaking, it's "I Registered to Vote Today," but you get the idea. Register today, have a beer to celebrate, then vote later.
Mile Wide...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
