Hip Hops: With an Elector or a Chimera, there’s always beer news fit to...
Tomorrow is Elector Day
The New Albanian Brewing Company Pizzeria & Public House (3312 Plaza Drive, New Albany) generally refers to Election Day as "Elector Day." NABC's original brewery began production in 2002, and the...
Hip Hops: Is the old-school beer bar doomed? I hope not
Shippingport Brewing and its Sally Forth Taproom opened last week to much acclaim in or near Portland, depending on one's competitive feelings about Louisville geography. I believe Shippingport's birth boosts the total of functioning...
Hip Hops: NABC, Hi-Wire, Noble Funk, and what’s German, anyway?
German consular official: "Yes, Mr. Baylor, we see you're requesting asylum in our country. Can you explain why you'd like to live in Germany?
Me: Must. Escape. Mister X.
Dude's been following me around my entire...
Hip Hops: A chronicle of what I can remember after 40 years in beer
I try to keep the self-aggrandizement to a bare minimum here at Hip Hops.
(brief pause for a round of beers, a bathroom break, and sustained hilarity)
This being said, and honored only in the breach,...
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: We’re sorry, traditional Oktoberfest shoes are not available in pumpkin spice
Forty-one years into this journey of beer and brewing betterment, and I'm still fascinated by the American obsession with “ice cold” beer.
If beer actually tastes good, does it really need to be served “ice...
Harry’s Taproom and Kitchen, coming soon to the Jeffersonville IN riverfront
There hasn't been an official announcement, but a new establishment appears poised to occupy the former Flat12 Bierwerks taproom site at 130 W. Riverside Drive in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
According to multiple posts at Facebook, the eatery...
Minor league baseball is gone, and Against the Grain’s Brewery & Smokehouse goes on...
As it turns out, one thing really does lead to another.
On Tuesday minor league baseball was cancelled until next year, and if readers are interested in knowing more about why (hint: it's not strictly...
Hip Hops: Five of my biggest failures as a beer purveyor
"You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some. And then there's that little-known third category." — Al Gore
Let’s say you’re a small brewery with a relentless social media presence that includes...
Hometown Brewing’s Foxbody 5.0 garners praise from Beer Connoisseur
Hometown Brewing Company (4041 Preston Highway) is the "house" brewery of Craft House Pizza. The story goes something like this.
Tom Brown, part-owner of the family-owned regional Hometown Pizza chain, bought the Cumberland Brews production...
