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...
Hip Hops: Off to Greece to get my Fix
The Fall 2022 issue of Food & Dining Magazine (#75) is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. Go here for a preview of the features,...
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 or two, and maybe some snacks. The times can't always...
Hip Hops: An unvarnished assessment of Untappd, to the bitter end
As a longtime consumer of adult libations, most often beer but occasionally sidestepping to wine and spirits, the good news is that advancing age seems to have slowed the pace of my consumption, even...
Who are you going to believe, me or your own two eyes?
Originally published in the Winter 2015 issue of Food & Dining Magazine.
When Food & Dining Magazine published its inaugural edition in 2003, there hadn’t yet been an American Craft Beer Week. It came along three years later.
As for 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, assembled an excellent overview of Louisville metro's craft brewery scene....
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 it will be deployed on a weekly basis here at...
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 dēmos, "people." Interestingly, the English poet John Milton later coupled...
HIP HOPS— Goodwood Brewing Co.
It is a deceptively simple notion to modify the flavor of beer by aging it in Bourbon barrels. Just as char and time transform simpler corn-based spirits into a sipper’s elixir, so a barrel’s...
Gordon Biersch goes on hiatus, but not before donating to the Restaurant Workers Relief...
Last week Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant (400 S. 4th Street) made the difficult decision to pause temporarily amid the disruptions of the coronavirus, but before activating the alarm system, Biersch made a donation of...
