Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Hip Hops: Atrium’s 3rd birthday and Gallant Fox’s Bernheim collaboration

Atrium Brewing Company is celebrating its third anniversary with a series of beer events in September. Atrium was founded on September 25, 2020, which you'll recall was a challenging time to visit the post office,...

Hip Hops: On good beer books, an old novel, Papa’s lager judgment and timeless...

Portions of the following have been deployed previously in this space. Last evening I promised a colleague that quite soon I'd recall the name and author of a must-read book about beer in America—and before...

Edibles & Potables: Vienna’s “Old Whisky Malt Waltz,” gone but not forgotten

F&D's digital editor celebrated another birthday last week, and without revealing the exact number of trips I've taken around the sun to date, allow me just one observation. I'm so old that I can remember...

The Taste Bud: Hey, who put the water in my beer cubes?

As a brief reminder, F&D periodically links to prolific local writer Kevin Gibson’s “The Taste Bud” column, including new posts as well as ones from the past. We’ll provide a brief snippet to whet...

Hip Hops: Local craft breweries “standing the test of time”

https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/summer_2023_vol._78_/28 --- Today's column first appeared in F&D's most recent print edition: Summer 2023 — the 20th Anniversary Issue. The cover photo of beer writer Michael Jackson and brewer David Pierce was taken at BBC's original...

Hip Hops: It’s the time of the season for al fresco beer festivals

The central task today for your correspondent here at “Hip Hops” is to issue reminders about several forthcoming al fresco beer festivals, each fully worthy of your patronage. Saturday, July 15: J-Town Summer Craft Beer...

Hip Hops: It’s going to take a pint of Mild to explain the Dog...

The best part of beer traveling is all the other things one learns while in pursuit of beer.  The Merchant's House museum in Plymouth U.K. is one of the few remaining Elizabethan (1558-1603) buildings in...

Hip Hops: Pride Month, Craft Bash, beer style calcification, and more

The Summer 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine — our 20th Anniversary issue — is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. On those rare...

Hip Hops: “We’re all HERE because we’re not all THERE”

We have a saying in New Albany, which I typically refer to as the “Thrasher Axiom” in honor of the man who coined it: “We’re all here because we’re not all there.” These words of...

Hip Hops: The perfect partner for Louisville’s global cuisine? It’s Louisville Beer Week 2023

On May 2nd at Shippingport Brewing Company, the lads over at Louisville Ale Trail revealed a "going global" theme for Louisville Beer Week 2023, and I must admit this is a conceptual pathway near...