Hip Hops: Black Is Beautiful collabs are on, Fest of Ale is off (until...
Black Is Beautiful, an initiative and a beer.
More than two centuries ago the beer eventually to be known as Imperial Stout was embraced by English brewers and traders as the ideal export beverage for...
Hip Hops: Shippingport Brewing opens, and beer festivals return
At some point early last week Shippingport Brewing Company slid with stealth down the slipway, opening for business at 1221 W. Main Street.
Shippingport Brewing and the Sally Forth Taproom are in the Portland neighborhood...
Hip Hops: When craft beer in cans became a thing
Dipping into the archive this morning, here's a Hip Hops column I wrote in 2010, when craft beer in a can was both uncommon and subject to a good many knee-jerk reactions on the...
Hip Hops: Pilsners, Trappists and Monnik
Beer headings and a few pithy comments on a rainy Monday morning ...
• Kentucky brewers want legislation to allow them to sell directly to bars and restaurants(Lane Report)
In the main, alcoholic beverage laws in...
Hip Hops: In my cups at the very spot where the WCTU conspired
If I had a great beer yesterday but forgot to take a photograph, did I really drink it?
The last full week of August was eventful. Hi-Wire Brewing's taproom on Baxter Avenue in Louisville opened,...
Hip Hops: Goodwood’s on a roll, invading both Indy and Owensboro
All three national chain brewpubs are gone now, but Alcatraz (1995-2011), Rock Bottom (1996-2020) and Ram (2000-2020) each played a demonstrable part in the reformatting of downtown Indianapolis into a convention and sports hub.
I...
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: “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...
Brewery previews: DO/LIVE/LOVE in Butchertown and Our Lady of Perpetual Hops in New Albany
Two new breweries are coming to metropolitan Louisville: DO/LOVE/LIVE Taproom & Brewery in the Butchertown neighborhood and Our Lady of Perpetual Hops on New Albany’s north side. They join more than 7,000 American craft...
Hip Hops: What makes Goodwood’s new lager Mexican?
Say what you will about Frank Sinatra, but the guy could sing. Say what you will about Stone Brewing—go ahead and say it, but I may just offer a corrective.
Last month, F&D's founder and...
