The Barrel Roll at Paristown stands to be a unique adult beverage pairing event
As befits the present era of ascendant craft beer, spirits and wine, today’s tasting events and festivals have evolved considerably from those we used to stage during Jimmy Carter's presidency, as held in a...
DO/LOVE/LIVE Taproom & Brewery hires veteran brewmaster Larry Horvitz
Appropriately for the run-up to Louisville Beer Week, the forthcoming DO/LOVE/LIVE Taproom & Brewery project in Butchertown has found its brewmaster. He's Larry Horwitz, a 26-year veteran of the brewhouse, who most recently crafted...
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...
Boy meets wort, boy and wort build breweries, and Louisville Beer Week is revived
Santa Rosa is a fabled destination for lovers of California wine; think Sonoma, Napa and all the hedonistic joys of vineyard crawling. Naturally when I visited there some years back, my first stop was...
Harvest Hops Beer Fest joins the fun at New Albany’s Harvest Homecoming
New Albany's annual Harvest Homecoming is considered the 2nd largest annual festival both in metropolitan Louisville and the state of Indiana, trailing the Kentucky Derby Festival and the Indianapolis 500 festival, respectively.
Native New Albanians...
Passing the torch: Against the Grain to pick up where Cumberland Brews left off
Last night Louisville learned that Cumberland Brews was going away.
Raise a parting glass to Cumberland Brews, bowing out Saturday after 19 years
Today at lunch time, following a morning filled with social media buzz, Against...
Raise a parting glass to Cumberland Brews, bowing out Saturday after 19 years
When Cumberland Brews opened in 2000, there were only a handful of "microbreweries" in Louisville and Southern Indiana. Most of them were better defined as "brewpubs," places where beer was brewed on site and...
Great Flood Brewing Company will open a second location (with food) in Middletown
Great Flood Brewing Company debuted in April of 2014 with a stylish taproom on Bardstown Road, a stone's throw from Douglass Loop. Great Flood's house-brewed beers like Find A Away IPA and Toasted brown...
Craft Beer is all Grown Up
New breweries continue to sprout, but amid a maturing craft beer segment, more breweries are closing than ever before.
When the subject of your passion makes the huge leap from obscure cult following to international...
The seasonality of Oktoberfest in time, beer and year
If you ask me, nothing pertaining to autumn as a season should be fair game for touts until Labor Day has come and gone. As a “beer guy” of long standing, mid-September and Oktoberfest...
