Hip Hops: Louisville’s vibrant local brewing scene is crawling back from COVID
To me, beer is about people. Whether in an intimate barroom or a vast outdoor beergarden, people have always gathered to have a beer...
Hip Hops: A Bohemian countryside beer walk (1989)
There have been hundreds of lovely and utterly unconnected beer vignettes amid my wanderings, when there was time to indulge a genuine feeling of...
Hip Hops: Eiderdown Abfahrt … Grale’s pause … Akasha-Atrium brewer switch … and more...
We've made it all the way to June, and already it appears that 2020 will go down in history as one of the nation's...
Hip Hops: Who are you going to believe, me or your own two eyes?
Last week the local topic of much conversation pertained to the pandemic, a word derived from the Greek pandēmos -- pan meaning "all" and...
Hip Hops: Public drinking — and changing “stupid American liquor laws”
Today is Memorial Day. For many people the holiday hasn't felt appreciably different from any other day the past two months, with the surreal...
Hip Hops: Brian’s song will play forever more at the Hi-B Bar in Cork
An inviting barroom shifts the perspective of the traveler from the expansive outside world looking in, to the insider's viewpoint looking back out ......
Hip Hops: One of those bucket list lager days
My primary aim this afternoon is to link you to an evocative article by beer writer Joe Stange, written about a brewery of which...
In Jeffersonville, Growler USA localizes and rebrands as Harbor & Hops Restaurant Tap House
The Jeffersonville restaurant and multi-tap known as Growler USA since inception in 2018 has transitioned to a new non-franchise local identity, Harbor & Hops...
Hip Hops: Introducing weekly scribblings about beer and brewing
For more than a decade, "Hip Hops" has been the title of my column for the quarterly print-edition of Food & Dining Magazine. Now...
Crowler Catering is a “Food, Booze and Beer Shopping Experience” from the founders of...
Crowler Catering is a new online shop at HB Productions, and in turn, HB Productions is Tisha Gainey, Trevor Cravens and their signature late...
