Hip Hops: Coopers Sparkling Ale — not Foster’s Lager — is Australian for...
During the Stoned Age, when Crocodile Dundee and Outback Steakhouse roamed the earth with impunity (and nary a sliver of ironic detachment), so did...
Hip Hops: 20 years on, and maybe at long last we’ve reached post-postcraftbeerism
https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/vol_05_summer_04/22
Behold the Summer 2004 Food & Dining Magazine beer column, titled "Beyond the Longneck," this implying a state of existence blissfully free of mass...
Hip Hops: Anchors, rivers, riots, flagships and cask ale
This week's cover photograph was taken in 2007 and offers a view of the Weyermann Malting Co. in Bamberg, Germany. Unsurprisingly, it is situated...
Hip Hops: El Nopal Mexican Style Lager, new from Against the Grain
This week's "Hip Hops" column actually came yesterday, but we'll take our local beer news wherever we can find it (and besides, it's a...
Hip Hops: “The Drinker,” by Hans Fallada (a book review)
We all have two sides. The one we let people see and the one we don't.
During my college days I enjoyed a well-deserved reputation...
Hip Hops: Death, taxes, generational discord – and a few well-chosen beers in one’s...
“The search for the perfect pint should last a lifetime.”
-- Michael “The Beer Hunter” Jackson
I’ve been told that in life two things are inevitable:...
Hip Hops: Get ready for the Rollin’ on the River Craft Beer Fest on...
We're less than a month away from the inaugural Rollin' on the River Craft Beer Festival, which will take place on Saturday, June 8...
Hip Hops: Hometown Brewing, Craft House Pizza, and a KY Craft Bash update
Yesterday I promised to insert a brief preview into "Hip Hops" of my forthcoming print profile of Tom Brown and his Craft House Pizza...
Hip Hops: Remembering a May Day in glorious Vienna, 1987
Today is May 1, or May Day. In Europe it's a traditional festival marking the beginning of summer, in addition to being known in...
Hip Hops: With practice, beer knowledge is put into practice
A pedestrian on 57th Street sees a musician getting out of a cab and asks, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” Without pause,...
