Hop Hops: If this beer tasted any fresher you’d be talking like a pirate
“The natural dynamic is to drink less, but drink better. There are no longer masses of workers exiting steel factories in Pennsylvania and coal mines in northern England, ready to wash away the day's...
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,...
Decadence, depravity, Hunter S. Thompson and a commemorative Derby beer from Flying Dog
A half-century ago, a native Louisvillian observed that the Kentucky Derby hasn't ever been exactly as it appears, and this is more accurate than ever in 2020, when the pandemic has caused the race...
Hip Hops: Liteweights ascendent, or the Empire of the Wet Air (1975 – 2024)
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
-- 1 Corinthians 13:11-12
American...
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...
EXCLUSIVE: Monnik Beer Co. plans brewery, kitchen in New Albany at the former NABC...
Submitted for your approval, two seemingly unrelated local beer facts.
Monnik Beer Co. opened in Germantown in 2015 and enjoys a reputation as one of Louisville's finest breweries. Meanwhile the New Albanian Brewing Company's Bank...
Hop Hops: Prophecies and omens from a FOSSILS homebrewing club newsletter in 1994
In September 1990, the Fermenters of Special Southern Indiana Libations Society (FOSSILS) homebrewing club was founded in New Albany. The Louisville Area Grain and Extract Research Society (LAGERS) was launched the previous year. Both...
Hip Hops: The devil’s in the Wien tale
Are you an owner or manager of an establishment that serves draft beer? If so, is the random chaos model of draft beer selection making you dizzy? It doesn't have to be this way....
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...
“Come on in and have a beer” at The Shop, new to Crescent Hill
As reported in the CJ, The Shop has opened at 2708 Frankfort Ave in Crescent Hill (web; Fb). The web site offers an "eat local" list complete with links to order, and I'm assuming...
